Bifurcation analysis of a rigid-rotor squeeze film damper system with unsymmetrical stiffness supports

• Published in: Archive of applied mechanics (1991) Vol. 87; no. 8; pp. 1347 - 1364
• Main Authors: Chen, Huizheng, Hou, Lei, Chen, Yushu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.08.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Amplitudes; Asymmetry; Bifurcations; Classical Mechanics; Energy transfer; Engineering; Mathematical models; Military helicopters; Nonlinear phenomena; Original; Precession; Rigid-body dynamics; Stiffness; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Bifurcation; Unsymmetrical supports; Squeeze film damper; precession motion; Singularity method
• ISSN: 0939-1533; 1432-0681
• DOI: 10.1007/s00419-017-1254-9

This paper is focused on the relationship between rigid body translation and rigid body precession in a squeeze film damper–rigid-rotor system with unsymmetrical stiffness supports. Two cases are considered: the precession motion non-resonance and internal resonance when translation motion occur primary resonant. In the first case, the amplitudes of translation and precession can be connected with an integration parameter about rotor parameters such as geometric size, stiffness, and mass. Some combination of system parameters will make the amplitudes of precession motion reach the same magnitude of the amplitudes of translation motion, so this integration parameter become an index to reflect the precessional motion degree, it is can be used to judge the feasibility of neglecting processional motion and simplifying asymmetry rotor as reasonable symmetry model. In the second case, the translation motion and precessional motion are strongly coupled, the vibration energy transfer between two kind of motion and the system occur internal resonant, which is possible appear in the rotor with cantilever disk. Each of case may appear nonlinear phenomenon, which is closely related with system parameters. The bifurcation analysis by using singularity methods is carried out to delimit the range of applicative operation parameters to avoid harmful phenomenon in unsymmetrical rotor system. The results of this paper provide a theoretical foundation for the convenient model simplification judgment and parameters optimization of the squeeze film damper-unsymmetrical rotor systems.