Performance analysis of journal bearing having surface waviness operating under misaligned condition

Bangotra, Arun; Sharma, Sanjay; Taufique, Reza; Byotra, Deepak

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“…Jamali et al [24,25] showed that the bearing performance can be improved by using a variable bearing profile. More recently, the misalignment problem in journal bearing has also been investigated by [26][27][28]. However, all these works did not consider the effect of changing the geometrical bearing profile parameters on the system response to unbalance excitations.…”

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A New Geometrical Design to Overcome the Asymmetric Pressure Problem and the Resulting Response of Rotor-Bearing System to Unbalance Excitation

Jamali,

Aljibori,

Al-Tamimi

et al. 2023

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Improving the bearing design helps in reducing the negative consequences related to errors in installation, manufacturing, deflections under severe loading conditions, progressive wear of machine elements, and many other aspects. One of the methods of such a design improvement effort is changing the bearing profile along the bearing width to compensate for the reduction in the geometrical gap between the shaft and the bearing inner surface due to the aforementioned causes. Since in all rotating machinery, unbalance usually exists at some level, this paper deals with the response of this modified bearing to unbalanced excitation to evaluate the effectiveness of such geometrical design on the dynamic characteristics of the rotor-bearing system. The numerical solution is performed using the finite difference method by assuming Reynolds boundary conditions to determine the cavitation limits, and the 4th-order Range-Kutta method is used to determine the time responses resulting from the unbalance excitation. The time responses to this type of excitation show that the rotor-bearing with the improved geometrical design is more stable, particularly at high speeds. In addition, this modification leads to an improvement in the lubricant layer thickness and the reduction in the levels of the generated pressure between the surfaces despite the presence of large deviations from the perfectly aligned bearing system. Furthermore, the suggested geometrical design overcomes the problem of asymmetricity in the pressure field resulting from the shaft deviation to a large extent. The results of this work (the enhancement in the level of the film thickness and the improvement in the dynamic response of the system as well as the reduction of the maximum pressure value) extend the range of misalignment in which the rotor bearing systems can operate safely which represents a significant step in designing the rotor-bearing system.

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