PREDICTION OF MAXIMUM UNBALANCE RESPONSES OF A GEAR COUPLED TWO-SHAFT ROTOR-BEARING SYSTEM

An Sung Leea, Jin Woong Hab Rotor Dynamics Group, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Yoosung, P.O. Box 101, Daejeon 305-600, Republic of Korea R&D Department, Century Corporation, Asansi, Chungnam 336-842, Republic of Korea

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HARSHAL AVINASH MUNGIKAR Graduate Student Mechanical Engineering Department University of Houston, Texas (PS. ID.: 0930631)

ABSTRACT
1. The paper proposes analytical solutions to the maximum and minimum radii of the unbalance response orbit of a gear coupled two-shaft rotor bearing system, using the finite element approach.

2. The proposed method was applied to a 600kW turbo-chiller

rotor bearing system for obtaining its unbalance response.

3. Validation of the proposed method was taken up by

comparing it with the results of a full numerical approach.

DERIVATION OF EQUATIONS OF MOTION

1. The gear pair has ten degrees of freedom. 2. A displacement vector of a gear pair from a coordinate system lying on the pressure line of the two gears is:

u1,2, v1,2, x,y are the translational and rotary degrees of freedom. z is the torsional degree of freedom

The equations of motion for the gear pair can be written as follows:
1. 2. M1*(d2u1/dt2) = Q1 M1 *(d2 v1/dt2) + cm *(dv1/dt) cm*(dv2/dt) + cmr1 *(d z1/dt) + cmr2 *(d z2/dt) + kmv1 kmv2 + kmr1z1 + kmr2z2 = Q2 It1 *(d2 x1 /dt2) + Ip11 *(d y1/dt) = Q3 It1*(d2 y1 /dt2) Ip11*(d x1/dt) = Q4 M2*(d2u2/dt2) = Q5 M2*(d2 v2/dt2) - cm *(dv1/dt) + cm*(dv2/dt) - cmr1 *(d z1/dt) - cmr2 *(d z2/dt) - kmv1 + kmv2 - kmr1z1 - kmr2z2 = Q6 It2*(d2 x2 /dt2) + Ip22*(d y2/dt) = Q7 It2*(d2 y2 /dt2) Ip22*(d x2/dt) = Q8

3. 4. 5. 6.

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The equations of motion for the gear pair can be written as follows:
9. Ip1*(d2 z1 /dt2) + cmr1*(dv1/dt) cmr1*(dv2/dt) + cmr12*(d z1/dt) + cmr1r2*(d z2/dt) + kmr1v1 kmr1v2 + kmr12z1 + kmr1r2z2 = Q9

10. Ip2*(d2 z2 /dt2) + cmr2*(dv1/dt) cmr2*(dv2/dt) + cmr22*(d z2/dt) + cmr1r2*(d z1/dt) + kmr2v1 kmr2v2 + kmr22z2 + kmr1r2z1 = Q10

These 10 equations of motion can be represented in matrix forms as follows:

Through a coordinate transformation considering a pressure angle, the displacement vector of the gear pair can be written as:

And the equations of motion can be expressed as,

 For the whole finite element model, all the finite elements matrices need to be assembled together.

This involves, assembling the coupled vibration FE model of the gear pair and the general vibration FE models of the other elements like shafts and bearings. This is obtained by placing the pure lateral and torsional vibration matrices diagonally and the coupled ones off diagonally.

The final equations of motion can be represented as:

UNBALANCE RESPONSE FORMULATION

In the rotor case the unbalance exciting force can be represented as:

Unbalance response solution can be expressed as:

Substituting these into the generalized equation of motion, we get:

[C](-{a}w1sinw1t + {b}w1cosw1t {c}w2sinw2t + {d}w2cosw2t) + [M](-{a}w12cosw1t {b}w12sinw1t {c}w22cosw2t {d}w22sinw2t) + [K]({a}cosw1t + {b}sinw1t + {c}cosw2t + {d}sinw2t) = {Uc}1w12cosw1t + {Us}1w12sinw1t + {Uc}2w22cosw2t + {Us}2w22sinw2t

Now, equating the coefficients of cosw1,2t and sinw1,2t on LHS and RHS and expressing them in matrix form, we get:

Solving the above matrices, we get {a}, {b}, {c}, {d} (modal vectors of the unbalance response) Now, the horizontal and vertical responses q1 and q2 of the unbalanced node can be expressed as:

ANALYSIS OF RESULTS

CONCLUSIONS BY THE AUTHOR

1. Analytical solutions to the maximum and minimum radii of the unbalance orbit using finite element modeling had been proposed.

2.

When applied to 600kW turbo chiller rotor bearing system, the lateral coupling between the driver and driven systems was limited.

3.

Due to the torsional-lateral coupling between the two systems, bumps in the unbalance lateral responses for driver system were observed at the first torsional natural frequency.

4.

The results were validated with those obtained using a full numerical approach.