NONLINEAR STABILITY OF BALANCED ROTOR DUE TO EFFECT OF BALL BEARING INTERNAL CLEARANCE

• Published in: Applied mathematics and mechanics Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 175 - 186
• Main Author: 白长清 许庆余 张小龙
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: School of Aerospace, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China%School of Aerospace, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China 01.02.2006; Mechanical and Electrical Engineering College, Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology,Xi'an 710055, P. R. China
• Subjects: Ball bearings; Bifurcations; Chaos theory; Clearances; Mathematical analysis; Nonlinearity; Rotors; Stability; 平衡转子; 混沌理论; 球轴承; 间隙; 非线性稳定性; rotor; clearance; bifurcation; chaos; ball bearing; stability
• ISSN: 0253-4827
• DOI: 10.1007/s10483-006-0205-1

Stability and dynamic characteristics of a bail bearing-rotor system are investigated under the effect of the clearance in the ball bearing. Different clearance values are assumed to calculate the nonlinear stability of periodic solution with the aid of the Flo- quet theory. Bifurcation and chaos behavior are analyzed with variation of the clearance and rotational speed. It is found that there are three routes to unstable periodic solution. The period-doubling bifurcation and the secondary Hopf bifurcation are two usual routes to instability. The third route is the boundary crisis, a chaotic attractor occurs suddenly as the speed passes through its critical value. At last, the instable ranges for different internal clearance values are described. It is useful to investigate the stability property of ball bearing rotor system.