Influence of support stiffness on aero-engine coupling vibration quantitative analysis

Abstract

This paper investigates the whole aero-engine coupling vibration, as a rotor tester to be the research object. The rotor tester system is composed of two mountings, stator system, support structures and the rotor system. The modal experiment of the whole tester under the condition of mounting in the test room is carried out. The finite element (FE) model of the rotor tester is built, and the model was modified and validated according to the modal test results. A rotor-stator coupling factor and a section rotor-stator rubbing risk coefficient are proposed, the influence of the support stiffness values on the engine vibration characteristics, such as natural frequencies, modal shapes, rotor-stator coupling degree, and stator-rotor rubbing risk degree at compressor and turbine section is quantitative studied. Results show that the support stiffness contributes to the rigid body modal shapes greatly and to the rotor bending ones slightly. The factor and coefficient defined in this study are both reasonable, and they can reflect the corresponding characteristics exactly. Moreover, the effect of the supports stiffness values on the rotor-stator coupling degree and the rotor-stator rubbing risk degree is nonlinear. The rotor-stator coupling factor and the section stator-rotor rubbing risk coefficient proposed in this study provide a new way to quantitatively research the whole engine coupling vibration.