DYNAMIC MODELLING FOR ROLLING SLIDEWAYS ASSEMBLY WITH DAMPING OIL-FILMS

By employing the oil-film damping technique, the vibration-proof ability of rollingslideways assembly can be improved remarkably without influencing its inherent advanced char-acteristics. This paper presents an investigation on dynamic modelling and parameter identifica-tion for rolling slideways assembly with damping oil-films on the basis of modal modification.The method combines theoretical calculation and experimental results effectively and can be usedto carry out reliable simulation and parameter analysis instead of pure analytical method.

Simulation on Mechanical Behaviors of Oil-film Bearing Sleeve by Elastic Interference Fit

Oil film bearing,which works on thin film between sleeve and bush,is widely used in steel industry due to the characteristics of high efficiency and low noise,etc. The backup roll of 1 580PC hot strip mill invested by some steel corporation has been equipped with such bearing. During the process of setup&disassembly and usage period,the sleeve has been dramatically damaged,which results in production accidents and decreases its service life,thus heavily influencing steel production. Aimed at such puzzles,under specific loadcase,mechanical properties of bearing sleeve,as well as estimation of contact status and adhesive force of sleeve by interference fit,are quantitatively simulated by finite element method,which establishes an mechanical foundation for improving the load capacity of bearing and decreasing its wear and adhesion damages. Finally,some measures and conclusions are drawn.

Bifurcation analysis for nonlinear multi-degree-of-freedom rotor system with liquid-film lubricated bearings

The oil-film oscillation in dimensional nonlinear problem. In this a large rotating machinery is a complex high- paper, a high pressure rotor of an aero engine with a pair of liquid-film lubricated bearings is modeled as a twenty-two-degree-of-freedom nonlinear system by the Lagrange method. This high-dimensional nonlinear system can be reduced to a two-degree-of-freedom system preserving the oil-film oscillation property by introducing the modified proper orthogonal decomposition （POD） method. The effi- ciency of the method is shown by numerical simulations for both the original and reduced systems. The Chen-Longford （C-L） method is introduced to get the dynamical behaviors of the reduced system that reflect the natural property of the oil-film oscillation.

Simulation Research on Oil Whirl Fault in a High-speed Rotor-bearing System

Under the sliding bearing support for the rotor-bearing system, the dynamic model of a rotor-bearing system is established under the action of non-linear oil film force. The rotor-bearing system has been studied by the application of nonlinear dynamics theory, and the system＇s response was obtained by the numerical integration approach. The effects of eccentricity, speed, lubricant viscosity, radius gap, bearing length and journal radius on the system＇s response have been studied by using an amplitude-frequency curve, three-dimensional spectrum and bifurcation, which provides a theoretical basis for the diagnosis of the oil whirl fault effectively in the rotor-bearing system supported by a sliding bearing.

A finite-element-aided ultrasonic method for measuring central oil-film thickness in a roller-raceway tribo-pair

Roller bearings support heavy loads by riding on an ultra-thin oil film(between the roller and raceway),the thickness of which is critical as it reflects the lubrication performance.Ultrasonic interfacial reflection,which facilitates the non-destructive measurement of oil-film thickness,has been widely studied.However,insufficient spatial resolution around the rolling line contact zone remains a barrier despite the use of miniature piezoelectric transducers.In this study,a finite-element-aided method is utilized to simulate wave propagation through a three-layered structure of roller-oil-raceway under elastohydrodynamic lubrication(EHL)with nonlinear characteristics of the i)deformed curvature of the cylindrical roller and ii)nonuniform distribution of the fluid bulk modulus along the circumference of the oil layer being considered.A load and speed-dependent look-up table is then developed to establish an accurate relationship between the overall reflection coefficient(directly measured by an embedded ultrasonic transducer)and objective variable of the central oil-film thickness.The proposed finite-element-aided method is verified experimentally in a rollerraceway test rig with the ultrasonically measured oil-flm thickness corresponding to the values calculated using the EHLtheory.

Numerical and experimental investigation into hypersonic boundary layer transition induced by roughness elements

In this work, the Direct Numerical Simulation(DNS) and Oil-Film Interferometry(OFI)technique are used to investigate the hypersonic boundary layer transition induced by single and double roughness elements at Mach number 5. For single roughness, the DNS results showed that both horseshoe vortices and hairpin vortices caused by shear layer instability can affect the boundary layer instability. The generation of the near-wall unstable structure is the key point of boundary layer transition behind the roughness element. At the downstream of the roughness element, the interaction between horseshoe vortices and hairpin vortices will spread in the spanwise direction.For double roughness elements, the effect of the spacing between roughness elements on the transition is studied. It is found that the case of higher spacing between roughness elements is more effective for inducing transition than the lower one. The interaction between two adjacent roughness elements can suppress the evolution of horseshoe vortices in the downstream and trigger the instability of shear layer. Thus, the transition will be suppressed accordingly.