TY - GEN
T1 - Stability-optimized clearance configuration of fluid-film journal bearings
AU - Matsuda, Koichi
AU - Kanemitsu, Yoichi
AU - Kijimoto, Shinya
PY - 2005/1/1
Y1 - 2005/1/1
N2 - A clearance configuration of fluid-film journal bearings is optimized in a sense of enhancing the stability of a full circular bearing at high rotational speeds. A performance index is chosen as the sum of the squared whirl-frequency ratios over a wide range of eccentricity ratios, and a Fourier series is used to represent an arbitrary configuration of fluid-film bearings. An optimization problem is then formulated to find the Fourier coefficients to minimize the index. The whirl-frequency ratio is inversely proportional to the stability threshold speeds of a Jeffcott rotor. The short bearing approximation is used to simplify a mathematical model that describes a pressure distribution developed in a fluid-film bearing. The designed bearing cannot destabilize the Jeffcott rotor at any high rotating speed subject to the short-bearing assumption and significantly reduces the size of the unstable region for a finite-length bearing with a small length-to-diameter ratio.
AB - A clearance configuration of fluid-film journal bearings is optimized in a sense of enhancing the stability of a full circular bearing at high rotational speeds. A performance index is chosen as the sum of the squared whirl-frequency ratios over a wide range of eccentricity ratios, and a Fourier series is used to represent an arbitrary configuration of fluid-film bearings. An optimization problem is then formulated to find the Fourier coefficients to minimize the index. The whirl-frequency ratio is inversely proportional to the stability threshold speeds of a Jeffcott rotor. The short bearing approximation is used to simplify a mathematical model that describes a pressure distribution developed in a fluid-film bearing. The designed bearing cannot destabilize the Jeffcott rotor at any high rotating speed subject to the short-bearing assumption and significantly reduces the size of the unstable region for a finite-length bearing with a small length-to-diameter ratio.
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U2 - 10.1115/detc2005-84671
DO - 10.1115/detc2005-84671
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33244463253
SN - 0791847381
SN - 9780791847381
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference - DETC2005
SP - 1097
EP - 1105
BT - Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Techn. Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences - DETC2005
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - DETC2005: ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Y2 - 24 September 2005 through 28 September 2005
ER -