Theoretical and experimental investigation on the efficiency of a novel roller piston pump

This study presents a novel roller piston pump,in which a cam guide-roller type rolling support is adopted to replace the sliding pair support of the swash plate-slipper pair to achieve the oil suction and discharge of the piston cavity.In addition,the shaft distribution is used to replace the original valve plate distribution and the driving shaft is used as the distribution shaft to remove the valve plate structure,which greatly simplifies the design of the axial piston pump.Such a configuration largely reduces the number of sliding friction pairs of the pump,and avoids the influence of the sliding friction pair on it under high-speed and variable-speed conditions.Firstly,mathematical models of the mechanical and volumetric efficiencies of the roller pump are deduced respectively through force analysis and the compressibility equation.Based on the numerical simulation of MATLAB and AMESim,the effects of load pressure and rotational speed on mechanical and volumetric efficiencies are studied respectively,and it is verified that the roller pump has no structural flow pulsation.The prototype pump is then designed and built,along with a special test rig.The outlet pressure,outlet flow,and torque of the pump under different load pressures and rotational speeds are measured,and the mechanical and volumetric efficiencies of the prototype pump under various load pressures and rotational speeds are obtained.The experimental results are in good agreement with the simulated analysis.When the load pressure is 8 MPa and the speed is 5000 r/min,the mechanical and the volumetric efficiencies are 85.5% and 96.8%,respectively.When the speed is increased to 10000 r/min,the mechanical and the volumetric efficiencies are 66.7% and 95.6%,respectively.The experimental results show that the proposed roller piston pump has excellent efficiency under wide-speed and high-speed conditions and can be a potential solution as a fuel pump in aerospace fuel systems.

Determination of large diameter bored pile's effective length based on Mindlin's solution

The calculation equation of large diameter bored pile＇s effective length is connected with its distribution of pile shaft resistance. Thus, there is a great difference between the calculation results under the different distributions of pile shaft resistance. Primarily, this paper summarizes the conceptualized mode of pile shaft resistance under the circum- stance that the soil surrounding the piles presents different layer distributions. Secondly, based on Mindlin＇s displacement solution and in consideration of the effect of pile diam- eter, the calculation equation is optimized with the assumption that the pile shaft resis- tance has a parabolic distribution. The influencing factors are analyzed according to the calculation result of effective pile length. Finally, combined with an engineering example, the calculation equation deduced in this paper is analyzed and verified. The result shows that both the Poisson ratio of soil and pile diameter have impacted the effective pile length. Compared with the Poisson ratio of soil, the effect of pile diameter is more significant. If the pile diameter remains the same, the effect of the Poisson ratio of soil to the effective pile length decreases as the ratio of pile elastic modulus and soil share modulus increases. If the Poisson ratio of soil remains the same, the effect of the pile diameter to the effective pile length increases as the ratio of pile elastic modulus and soil share modulus increases. Thus the optimized calculation result of pile effective length under the consideration of pile diameter effect is more close to the actual situation of engineering and reasonably practicable.