Numerical and Experimental Investigations on a Friction Ring Damper for a Flywheel

A damping strategy using a friction ring damper for an industrial flywheel was numerically and experimentally investigated. The friction ring damper, located on the arms of the flywheel, was experimentally found to effectively reduce the vibration amplitude of the flywheel. The vibration energy is dissipated when relative motions occur at the friction contact interfaces. Nonlinear dynamic analysis based on a lumped-parameter model of a flywheel equipped with a friction ring damper was conducted. A dimensionless parameter, κ, defined as the ratio of the critical friction force to the amplitude of harmonic force, was used to evaluate the damping performance. For several values of κ, steady-state responses under harmonic excitation and nonlinear modes were obtained using the harmonic balance method (HBM) combined with the alternating frequency–time domain method (AFT). The forced response analysis proved the existence of an optimal value of κ, which can minimize the vibration amplitude of the flywheel. The nonlinear modal analysis showed that all the damping ratio–frequency curves are completely coincident even for different κ, and the frequency corresponding to the maximum damping ratio is equal to the frequency at the intersection of the forced response curves under the fully slip and the fully stick states of the friction contact interface. By analyzing the behaviors of the friction contact interface, it is shown that the friction contact interface provides damping in the combined stick–slip state. The forced response under random excitation was calculated using the Runge–Kutta method and the friction interface behaviors were analyzed. Finally, spectral testing was conducted to verify the numerical results.

Wear Resistance Improvement of Linear Block-Polyurethanes Under Conditions of Liquid Friction

A significant disadvantage of parts made of linear block polyurethanes under conditions of friction contact in the presence of an aqueous medium is the intensification of hydrolysis processes and decrease in volume strength. It was proposed to slow down the hydrolysis of polyurethanes in three ways: by directed changes in chemical structure, by electromagnetic radiation of different intensities and by creation of composite materials, based on the principle of additional intermolecular crosslinking at the manufacturing and hot processing stages. The conditions for the formation of a smooth wear-resistant surface that protects the material from rapid destruction are revealed.

Methods for increasing the wear resistance of heavy loaded metal-polymer tribosystems

Methods of increasing the wear resistance and reliability of friction units are generating considerable interest being a vital factor in transport, mechanical engineering, and other fields of technology. The solution of the given problem is impossible without the creation of self-regulating structures on the friction contact surfaces. We strongly believe that this problem can be solved by creating multicomponent functional layers (hereafter MFL) on tribocontact.

High-temperature friction units with carbon-containing materials

The frictional interaction of carbon-carbon composites with steel at high temperatures is considered. Antifriction properties of carbon composites are investigated at friction on a steel at speeds of 0,050,25 m/s and pressures of 0,31,0 MPa. The advantages of Hardcarb-T material in comparison with Argalon-2D material are experimentally determined. Keywords: temperature, friction, contact pressure, composites, steel, speed, friction coefficient. [email protected]

Dry Friction Interblade Damping by 3D FEM Modelling of Bladed Disk: HPC Calculations Compared with Experiment

Interblade contacts and damping evaluation of the turbine bladed wheel with prestressed dry friction contacts are solved by the 3D finite element method with the surface-to-surface dry friction contact model. This makes it possible to model the space relative motions of contact pairs that occur during blade vibrations. To experimentally validate the model, a physical model of the bladed wheel with tie-boss couplings was built and tested. HPC computation with a proposed strategy was used to lower the computational time of the nonlinear solution of the wheel resonant attenuation used for damping estimation. Comparison of experimental and numerical results of damping estimation yields a very good agreement.

INCREASING OF WEAR RESISTANCE OF LINEAR BLOCK-POLYURETHANES BY THERMAL PROCESSING METHODS

A significant imperfection of parts made from linear block-polyurethanes under conditions of friction contact in the presence of water medium is an intensification of hydrolysis processes and reduction of bulk strength. In order to slow down the hydrolysis process, samples of the polyurethanes were subjected to three types of thermal impacts: thermal processing during some time, infrared and laser irradiations. It has been established that processing in thermal fields of different intensity allows 5-10 times increase of wear resistance of these materials during friction in water medium.

Analysis of Loading and Vibration Histories on Natural Frequencies and Modal Damping of Blades With Friction at Root Contact Interfaces

Gas turbine engines change the rotation speed during operation in a wide range from zero to the speed corresponding to the cruise flight and the history of the rotation speed variation is individual for each flight. During the engine operation the bladed disks pass different resonances frequencies and may experience significant vibration amplitudes. The vibrations can affect the interaction conditions at friction contact interfaces, including contact stresses distribution and their contact status. As a result, the contact conditions can differ from those that are established at the initial bladed disk assembling and these conditions are dependent on the history of the vibration that a bladed disk experiences during every engine operation cycle. The variation of the contact conditions at friction contact interfaces affects modal properties and modal damping characteristics of a bladed disk, and it is important to assess the possible variation of these properties during the engine exploitation. In this paper, a transient analysis is performed to simulate blade vibration under different loading histories occurred in a flight mission. The analysis is performed for different histories of the blade vibration and a method is proposed for the analysis of modal damping in the blade root joints under the influence of different loading histories. The influence of different loading histories, friction contact parameters, the vibration excitation levels and resonating modes on modal characteristics and modal damping factors is studied, The pre-stress effects due to blade assembling are also explored.

Dynamic response of multi-degree-of-freedom systems with a Coulomb friction contact under harmonic excitation

This paper investigates the steady-state response of a multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) system with a Coulomb contact to harmonic excitation. Although discrete MDOF models are commonly used at early design stages to analyse the dynamic performances of engineering structures, the current understanding of the friction damping effects on MDOF behaviour is still limited due to the absence of analytical solutions. In this contribution, closed-form expressions of the continuous time response, the displacement transmissibility and the phase angle of each mass of the system are derived and validated numerically for 2DOF and 5DOF systems. Moreover, the features of the analytical response are investigated, obtaining the following results: (i) the determination of the minimum amounts of friction for which the resonant peaks become finite and (ii) for which stick-slip motion can be observed at high frequencies; (iii) an equation for the evaluation of invariant points for the displacement transmissibilities; (iv) a better understanding of phenomena such as the inversions of the transmissibility curves and the onset of additional resonant peaks due to the permanent sticking of the mass in contact. All these results show that MDOF systems exhibit significantly different dynamic behaviours depending on whether the friction contact and the harmonic excitation are applied to the same or different masses.

Evaluation of operational properties of aviation oils by tribological parameters

The quality of aviation oils was evaluated online on the basis of their lubricating, antifriction, rheological and antiwear properties in the friction contact. The use of the software and hardware complex for evaluation of operational characteristics of triboelements is offered. Approbation of the proposed methodology was performed on aviation oils SM-9. The increase in antifriction properties of the “Bora B” SM-9 oil was established to be due to the formation of limiting adsorption layers of lubricant on friction-activated contact surfaces, which are characterized by low shear stresses of the lubricant, and their structuring provides high effective viscosity in the contact at a level of 5142 Pa.s. It was revealed that at start-up the lubricant temperature is 20 0С and the mixed lubrication mode prevails, but with increasing the lubricant temperature to 100 0С the elastic-hydrodynamic (contact-hydrodynamic) lubrication mode dominates, then at maximum rotation speed of friction pairs the hydrodynamic lubrication mode dominates, regardless of oil temperature, which indicates the effective separation of the contact surfaces due to the formation of a lubricating layer between them. Analysis of the specific work of friction in the friction contact showed that the instability of this parameter evidences to intensification of destructive processes in the near-surface layers of metal and reduction in its wear resistance. The decrease in wear resistance of the lagging surface in the conditions of rolling with sliding for all types of investigated oils is due to the different directions of the friction force vector in the contact. In the course of operation of friction pairs in nonstationary conditions, the softening of the surface metal layers occurs, which has a positive effect on the tribological processes in the contact. The practical significance of the work consists in developing a methodology of analysis of lubricants, which makes it possible to more accurately evaluate their performance and provide recommendations for the choice of lubricant for specific friction units.