The present paper considers a multi-criteria analysis algorithm of turbo generator fluidfilm bearing operability and its connection with rotor machine monitoring system data. It is substantiated that implementation of predictive analysis of load capacity, locus curves and dynamic displacements allows prognosis of useful life of a fluid-film bearings and improvement of reliability of a rotor machine.

The following parameters have the most influence on the dynamics of a high-speed turbomachine's rotor system: mass and stiffness distribution of a rotor; damping properties of the materials of rotor's elements; location of bearings, sealings, and dampers; type, design, and operational conditions of bearings, sealings, and dampers; mass and inertia characteristics of machine's housing; and operational conditions of a turbomachine itself. It should be noted that the presence of fluid film bearing complicates the dynamic analysis. It is thus a quite urgent task to search for some rational parameters when a rotor system is under design and preliminary calculation, which in many cases leads to the problems of an optimal parametric design. One of the main yet controversial problems of parametric design in the field of rotor system dynamics is the determination of quality indicators for a particular case of a rotor system. The present paper proposed a criterion based on the efficiency of rotor system's input energy. The analysis of a number of parameters', e.g., values of constant external forces (rotor's mass), varying external forces (imbalance), and types of bearings, influence on this criterion has also been carried out.

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Abstract. Application of fluid-film bearings in rotor machines in many cases could have no alternative due to obvious advantages when compared to roller element bearings. Integration of information technology in mechanical engineering resulting in emergence of a new field of research -mechatronic bearings which allowed tracking condition of the most important parts of a machine and adjusting operational parameters of the system. Application of servo valves to control the flow rate through a fluid-film bearing is the most universal and simple way of rotor's position control due to relative simplicity of modelling and absence of need to radically change the design of conventional hydrodynamic bearings. In the present paper numerical simulations of passive (conventional as opposed to mechatronic) and active hybrid thrust fluid-film bearings with a central feeding chamber are presented, that are parts of a mechatronic rotor-bearing node. Numerical model of an active thrust bearing is based on solution of equations of hydrodynamics, rotor dynamics and an additional model of a servo valve. Various types of control have been investigated: P, PI and PID control, and the dynamic behaviour of a system has been estimated under various loads, namely static, periodic and impulse. A design of a test rig has been proposed to study passive and active thrust fluid-film bearings aimed at, among other, validation of numerical results of active bearings simulation.