Despite the elegant nature of the automatic balancing principle for passive imbalance vibration control, the co-existence of undesired whirling limit-cycles is a major impediment to the more widespread application of automatic dynamic balancing devices also called automatic dynamic balancer (ADB) in industry. To enlarge the region of stable perfect balancing and to eliminate whirling limit-cycles, we develop an innovative enhanced ADB system. This new idea harnesses the automatic balancing principle via moving permanent magnet balancer masses which are inductively coupled to a parallel resistor–inductor–capacitor (RLC) circuit. It is found that the circuit parameters can be adjusted properly to suppress the whirling limit-cycle to enlarge the perfect balancing region. We start from a Lagrangian description of the system and get nonlinear autonomous equations-of-motion. We then solve two dominant steady-state solutions for the enhanced ADB system. One solution is for the perfect balancing equilibrium points (EPs), which can be solved analytically. While the other solution is for the whirling limit-cycle which is solved via a harmonic balance method. The stability of these solutions is then evaluated through eigenvalue analysis and Floquet theory. The newly involved electrical parameters, such as coupling coefficient, equivalent capacitance, and equivalent resistance, are designed via an arc-length continuation method to destabilize the limit-cycle solutions to then guarantee stable rotor balancing.
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Rotor Balancing Via an Enhanced Automatic Dynamic Balancer With Inductively Coupled Shunt Circuit
Xiaowen Su,
Xiaowen Su
Department of Mechanical,
Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering,
M018 Dougherty Engineering Building,
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN 37996-2210
e-mail: xsu2@vols.utk.edu
Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering,
M018 Dougherty Engineering Building,
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN 37996-2210
e-mail: xsu2@vols.utk.edu
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Hans A. DeSmidt
Hans A. DeSmidt
Department of Mechanical,
Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering,
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN 37996-2210
e-mail: hdesmidt@utk.edu
Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering,
University of Tennessee,
234 Dougherty Engineering Building
,Knoxville, TN 37996-2210
e-mail: hdesmidt@utk.edu
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Xiaowen Su
Department of Mechanical,
Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering,
M018 Dougherty Engineering Building,
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN 37996-2210
e-mail: xsu2@vols.utk.edu
Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering,
M018 Dougherty Engineering Building,
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN 37996-2210
e-mail: xsu2@vols.utk.edu
Hans A. DeSmidt
Department of Mechanical,
Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering,
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN 37996-2210
e-mail: hdesmidt@utk.edu
Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering,
University of Tennessee,
234 Dougherty Engineering Building
,Knoxville, TN 37996-2210
e-mail: hdesmidt@utk.edu
1Corresponding author.
Contributed by the Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF VIBRATION AND ACOUSTICS. Manuscript received August 24, 2018; final manuscript received November 20, 2018; published online January 22, 2019. Assoc. Editor: Izhak Bucher.
J. Vib. Acoust. Jun 2019, 141(3): 031003 (14 pages)
Published Online: January 22, 2019
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Received:
August 24, 2018
Revised:
November 20, 2018
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Su, X., and DeSmidt, H. A. (January 22, 2019). "Rotor Balancing Via an Enhanced Automatic Dynamic Balancer With Inductively Coupled Shunt Circuit." ASME. J. Vib. Acoust. June 2019; 141(3): 031003. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4042200
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