We present an analysis of a two-plane automatic balancing device for rigid rotors. Ball bearings, which are free to travel around a race, are used to eliminate imbalance due to shaft eccentricity or misalignment. The rotating frame is used to derive autonomous equations of motion and the symmetry breaking bifurcations of this system are investigated. Stability diagrams in various parameter planes show the coexistence of a stable balanced state with other less desirable dynamics.
We present an analysis of a two-plane automatic balancing device for rotating machinery. The mechanism consists of a pair of races that contain balancing balls which move to eliminate imbalance due to rotor eccentricity or principal axis misalignment. A model is developed that includes the effect of support anisotropy and rotor acceleration. The symmetry of the imbalance is considered, and techniques from equivariant bifurcation theory are used to derive a necessary condition for the stability of balanced operation. The unfolding of the solution structure is explored and we investigate mechanical systems in which either the supports or the automatic ball balancer is asymmetric. Here it is shown that, provided the imbalance is small, the balanced state is robust to the considered asymmetries.
We present an experimental investigation of a single-plane automatic balancer that is fitted to a rigid rotor. Two balls, which are free to travel around a circular race, are used to compensate for the mass imbalance in the plane of the device. The experimental rig possesses both cylindrical and conical rigid body modes and the performance of the automatic balancer is assessed for a variety of different levels of imbalance. A non-planar mathematical model that also includes the observed effect of support anisotropy is developed and numerical simulations are compared with the experimental findings. In the highly supercritical frequency range the balls act to balance the rotor and a good quantitative match is found between the model and the experimental data. However, during the rigid body resonances the dynamics of the ball balancer is highly nonlinear and for this speed range the agreement between theory and experiment is mainly qualitative. Nevertheless, the model is able to successfully reproduce many of the solution types that are found experimentally.
Abstract. We present a nonlinear analysis of the dynamics of an automatic ball balancer (ABB) for rotors which are both eccentric and misaligned. The ABB consists of two or more ball bearings which are free to travel around a circular race at a fixed distance from the shaft. The balls, after a transient response, find a steady state which balances the rotor. Following the previous work of Green et al. at Bristol, we have included the effect of shaft misalignment which causes the rotor to precess. This can be countered by having two ABB races at different axial locations along the shaft. Mathematically, we use a Lagrangian approach to derive the equations of motion for the system. It is found that, contrary to the case of flexible rotors that are subject to eccentricity and shaft bending, there is no choice of co-ordinate system which leads to autonomous governing equations. Simulations are then computed which illustrate the role of the ball damping coefficient.
We present a nonlinear analysis of the dynamics of an automatic ball balancer (ABB) for rotors which are both eccentric and misaligned. The ABB consists of two or more ball bearings which are free to travel around a circular race at a fixed distance from the shaft. The balls, after a transient response, find a steady state which balances the rotor. Following the previous work of Green et al. at Bristol, we have included the effect of shaft misalignment which causes the rotor to precess. This can be countered by having two ABB races at different axial locations along the shaft. Mathematically, we use a Lagrangian approach to derive the equations of motion for the system. It is found that, contrary to the case of flexible rotors that are subject to eccentricity and shaft bending, there is no choice of co-ordinate system which leads to autonomous governing equations. Simulations are then computed which illustrate the role of the ball damping coefficient.
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