Rotor/stator rubbing systems may undertake a number of quite different responses. Recent experiments on rotor/stator rubbing have revealed that two or three different responses may coexist. In this paper the global response characteristics of a general rotor/stator rubbing system, which takes into account the dominant factors in the process of rotor/stator rubbing, especially, the dry friction effect that is mostly neglected in the previous works and is the main factor for the self-excited dry friction backward whirl, are studied. The different solutions of the piecewise nonlinear system are derived and their stability are analyzed to get the existence boundaries of the different responses. An overall picture of the global response characteristics of this model is then obtained by drawing the existence boundaries in a same parameter space. The present results provide good understanding on the coexistence of different rubbing responses observed in tests. Moreover, deeper insight into the types of coexistence of different rubbing responses and their relationship with the system parameters is gained.

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In this paper, the response characteristics of dry friction backward whirl of a general rotor/stator model, which accounts for both the dynamics of the rotor and the stator as well as the friction and the deformation at the contact surfaces, are investigated. The existence boundaries and the whirl frequencies of the dry friction backward whirl are determined analytically. It is found that there are two or three existence boundaries of the dry friction backward whirl that usually form two existence regions, either standing completely separately, or overlapping each other partly, or one containing the other completely, depending upon the system parameters. The whirl frequencies in the two existence regions are quite different and may jump between the lower and the higher values with the variation of the rotating speed. The results have been found to have good correspondence in the related rotor/stator rubbing experiments. a general rotor/stator model, dry friction backward whirl, existence boundaries, backward whirl frequencies Citation: Jiang J, Shang Z Y, Hong L. Characteristics of dry friction backward whirl-A self-excited oscillation in rotor-to-stator contact systems. Sci China Tech Sci, 2010, 53: 674683,

Abstract. this paper investigated the influence of cross-coupling effects on the rubbing-related dynamics of rotor/stator systems, The stability analysis on the synchronous full annular rub solution of a rotor/stator system, which includes both the dynamics of the stator and the deformation on the contact surface as well as the cross-coupling terms in velocities and displacements, is carried out. It is found that some cross-coupling effects will benefit the synchronous full annular rubs and some will not. Based on the finding, a control method by generating cross-coupling damping on the stator through the active auxiliary bearing is then proposed in order to suppress the contact severity and avoid the rubbing instability. Numerical simulation shows the validity of the mehtod.