MECHANICAL-ELECTRIC COUPLING DYNAMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ULTRA-HIGH SPEED GRINDING MOTORIZED SPINDLE SYSTEM

On the basis of the traditional mechanical model of a grinding wheel rotor and the mechanical-electric coupling model with ideal sinusoidal supply, taking high-frequency converting current of inverter power switches into further consideration, a modified mechanical-electric coupling model is created. The created model consists of an inverter, a motorized spindle, a grinding wheel and grinding loads. Some typical non-stationary processes of the grinding system with two different supplies, including the starting, the speed rising and the break in grinding loads, are compared by making use of the created model. One supply is an ideal sinusoidal voltage source, the other is an inverter. The theoretical analysis of the high-order harmonic is also compared with the experimental result. The material strategy of suppressing high-order harmonic mechanical-electric coupling vibration by optimizing inverter operating parameters is proposed.

Dynamic Response Analysis of Motorized Spindle System

As to motorized spindle system, this paper builds a simplified 3D model of spindle and bearing, performs structure modal analysis, reveals its dynamic characteristics under the free model; furthermore, modifies bearing radial stiffness and number of model and studies the change of modal parameters. On this basis, through the harmonic response analysis of the finite element model, dy- namic response characteristic caused by imbalance of monitored spindle system and law of vibration response to different amount of unbalance is analyzed.

Research Progress of Key Technology of High-Speed and High Precision Motorized Spindles

High speed machining and high precision machining are two tendencies of themanufacturing technology worldwide. The motorized spindle is the core component of the machine toolsfor achieving the high speed and high precise machining, which affects the general developmentlevel of the machine tools to a great extent. Progress of the key techniques is reviewed in thispaper, in which the high speed and high precision spindle bearings, the dynamical and thermalcharacteristics of spindles, the design technique of the high frequency motors and the drivers, theanti-electromagnetic damage technique of the motors, and the machining and assembling technique areinvolved. Finally, tha development tendencies of the motorized spindles are presented.

Analysis of Thermal Characteristics for a High Speed Motorized Spindle Based on the ANSYS Workbench

The high-speed motorized spindle, as the key component of machining centers and other high-end CNC machine tools, has performance directly affecting machining accuracy. According to the internal motor character- istics of the high speed motorized spindle in the paper, two major heat sources are analyzed and quantity of heat is calculated. The finite element analysis model of motorized spindle thermal characteristics is built through ap- plying the ANSYS Workbench. The thermal steady state, heat-structure coupling characteristics is carried out based on the cooling coefficient of thermal boundary conditions, and taking heating value of the bearing and mo- tor as thermal load, the temperature field distribution and thermal deformation of the spindle system are obtained, which prepare fox＂ the next thermal error modeling

Study of the thermal influence on the dynamic characteristics of the motorized spindle system

The severe internal heat generation of the motorized spindle system causes uneven temperature dis- tribution, and will affect the vibration characteristics of the system. Based on the thermal analysis about the motorized spindle by finite element method （FEM）, the thermal deformations of the spindle system are calculated by the thermal structure coupling simulation, and the thermal deformations of the rotor and the bearing units are extracted to analyze the bearing stiffness changes so that the modal characteristics of the rotor can be simulated in different thermal state conditions. And then the rotor thermal deformation experiment and the modal experiment of spindle by exciting with hammer are performed. The result shows that the thermal state of the motorized spindle system has a significant influence on the natural frequency of the rotor, which can be carefully treated when a spindle system is designed.

Dynamic Analysis of Axial Magnetic Forces for DVD Spindle Motors

The axial magnetic force, induced by the complicated flux linkage distribution from rotor magnet and stator slotted, is constructed by different relative heights and calculated by 3D finite element method (FEM) to analyze the dynamic characteristics for a DVD spindle motor. The axial magnetic force is designed to provide an axial stiffness, and govern the natural frequency of the dynamic performance. According to the simulation results and experimental measurements, the dynamic behaviors are significantly improved with a variation of relative height of rotor magnet and stator slotted on a DVD spindle motor.

Design and development of a five-axis machine tool with high accuracy,stiffness and efficiency for aero-engine casing manufacturing

In order to satisfy the machining requirements of aero-engine casing in modern aviation industry, this paper investigates three main issues during the design and development process of a five-axis machine tool with high accuracy, stiffness and efficiency, including whole structure design,key components design, and supporting stiffness design. First, an appropriate structure of five-axis machine tool is determined considering the processing characteristics of aero-engine casing. Then, a dual drive swing head and a compact motorized spindle are designed with enough drive capability and stiffness, and related structure, assembly method, cooling technology, and performance simulation are given in detail. Next, a design method of supporting stiffness of guide is proposed through the deformation prediction of the spindle end. Based on above work, a prototype of machine tool is developed, and some experiments are carried out, including performance tests of swing head and motorized spindle, and machining of a simulated workpiece of aero-engine casing. All experimental results show that the machine tool has satisfactory accuracy, stiffness and efficiency, which meets the machining requirements of aero-engine casing. The main work can be used as references for engineers and technicians, which are meaningful in practice.