Rubbing-Induced Vibration Response Analysis of Dual-Rotor-Casing System

Abstract

Considering gyroscopic effects caused by rotational speed, torsional vibration as well as coupling effects among inner rotor, out rotor and casing, a dynamic model of the dual-rotor-casing system is established using finite element (FE) method. By comparing the natural characteristics obtained from MATLAB and ANSYS, the developed model is verified. Then rubbing-induced vibration responses in dual-rotor-casing system are analyzed. The effects of rotational speed and speed ratio on rubbing vibration responses of the system are discussed. Results show that different combined frequency components will appear in the spectrum except two unbalanced excitation frequencies and their multiple frequency components, and these frequencies can be used as the dual-rotor aero-engine rubbing failure diagnosis frequencies when rubbing occurs. Besides, the amplitude of torsional vibration is larger than that of lateral vibration under the same working condition, and speed ratio has a great impact on the periodicity of the system rubbing-induced motion trajectory. The amplitude of rubbing-induced responses under counter-rotation is less than that under co-rotation with the same parameters.