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Normal form analysis of bouncing cycles in isotropic rotor stator contact problems

Alexander Shaw Orcid Logo, Alan R. Champneys, Michael Friswell

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Volume: 155, Pages: 83 - 97

Swansea University Authors: Alexander Shaw Orcid Logo, Michael Friswell

Abstract

This work considers analysis of sustained bouncing responses of rotating shafts with nonlinear lateral vibrations due to rotor stator contact. The insight that this is an internal resonance phenomena makes this an ideal system to be studied with the method of normal forms, which assumes that a syste...

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Published in: International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
ISSN: 00207403
Published: 2019
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa49011
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Abstract: This work considers analysis of sustained bouncing responses of rotating shafts with nonlinear lateral vibrations due to rotor stator contact. The insight that this is an internal resonance phenomena makes this an ideal system to be studied with the method of normal forms, which assumes that a system may be modelled primarily in terms of just its resonant response components. However, the presence of large non smooth nonlinearities due to impact and rub mean that the method must be extended. This is achieved here by incorporating an alternating frequency/time (AFT) step to capture nonlinear forces. Furthermore, the presence of gyroscopic terms leads to the need to handle complex modal variables, and a rotating coordinate frame must be used to obtain periodic responses. The process results in an elegant formulation that can provide reduced order models of a wide variety of rotor systems, with potentially many nonlinear degrees of freedom. The method is demonstrated by comparing against time simulation of two example rotors, demonstrating high precision on a simple model and approximate precision on a larger model.
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Start Page: 83
End Page: 97