Nonlinear dynamic characteristics of a three-dimensional rod-fastening rotor bearing system

The nonlinear dynamic characteristics of three-dimensional rod-fastening rotor bearing system are investigated in this paper. The rod-fastening rotor includes discontinuous shaft, rotating disks, circumferentially distributed rods, and macrointerfaces between disks. The first three parts are discretized by three dimensional elements, and the macrointerfaces are connected by some springs whose stiffness is determined by a proposed linear partition method. For comparison, the three-dimensional dynamic model of a corresponding complete rotor bearing system is also built. After the rod-fastening and complete rotor bearing system are reduced by a component mode synthesis, periodic motions and stability margins are calculated by using the shooting method and path-following technique, and the local stability of system is obtained by using the Floquet theory. Comparative results show the both systems have a resemblance in the bifurcation features when mass eccentricity and rotating speed are changed. The vibration response has the identical frequency components when typical bifurcations occur. The dynamic stress is obtained by regarding the displacements of all nodes as load. Moreover, the unbalanced and insufficient of the pre-tightening forces lead to obvious disadvantageous influence on the stability and vibration of the both systems. Generally, this paper considers the interfacial effect of the rod-fastening rotor bearing system and the relative nonlinear dynamic features are obtained.