Vibration mitigation of a flexible bladed rotor dynamic system with passive dynamic absorbers (Q2206170)

The aim of this paper is to investigate influence of passive vibration absorbers on vibration mitigation of a flexible bladed rotor system. Rotor is considered as a non-deformable disc on a horizontal massless shaft embedded in conventional bearings with viscous lubrication. The rotor is assumed to move in a vertical plane, so the gyroscopic forces are not respected. Rotor itself and blade system are considered in a conventional linear way. Therefore, usuall assumptions are adopted concerning effects of interaction, excentricity of the disc, small elastic bending deformation of blades, etc. Axial deformations of blades are neglected. Their stiffening due to centrifugal forces is respected. The core of the paper consists in an analysis of tuned mass damper (TMD) and nonlinear energy sink (NES) elements incorporated into the system. The former one (TMD) is classical linear SDOF system accomplishing in general den Hartog dynamic absorber (linear stiffness, linear damping). The latter one (NES) is arranged as an SDOF system with lateral springs, which results in a Duffing type oscillator with zero linear stiffness. Two variants are examined: (i) TMD on disc -- NES on tips of blades; (ii) NES on disc and tips of blades. A comprehensive numerical study showed that NES elements are mostly more effective in vibration damping due to their nonlinear character (well-known effect also in other cases, especially when broad band excitation is considered). The nonlinearity of the absorber allows to reduce the vibrations of the main system in a wider frequency range. It can be expected that such a system will be advantageous reducing effects of switch on/off passage through the resonance zone, while the stationary state is characterized by well expressed working frequency, may be with a small perturbation. The optimum parameters of the absorbers are obtained through optimization. The bifurcation diagrams and Lyapunov exponent of the system are obtained with respect to different parameters and rotational speed are obtained and consequently, the efficiency of the absorbers are investigated. The obtained results show how these passive absorbers can reduce vibration of the rotor system and remove the contact at higher clearance values between the blades and the stator. The paper can be attractive for readers involved in rotor dynamics concerning low frequency rotating systems with relatively stiff blades. They are for instance steam turbine systems, rotating compressors, etc. On the other hand it should be noted that high-speed systems (more than $10^5$ Hz, special pumps with small diameter, etc.) or systems with flexible blades (helicopter rotors, ventilation systems, etc.) should be modelled by substantially more sophisticate strongly nonlinear systems dynamic systems regarding various interaction of deformation components and forces. There can be recommended a lot of advanced papers, for instance by Warminski, Kozien, Pešek, Půst and many others. They include wide theoretical background with a rich numerical evaluation and results of many year experimental measurement on special developed devices as well as results of in situ measurements on equipment in operation (electro-plants, etc.). Moreover, a number of vibration absorbing systems are studied in these papers (TMD, dry friction, etc.).