Blade-Shaft Coupled Resonance Vibration by Using Active Magnetic Bearing Excitation

The turbine generator requires sufficient reliability as a major component of the power plant. The rotor dynamics calculates the critical speed of the shaft-bearing system for design to avoid appearance of the critical speed, while the blade dynamics calculates the natural frequency of the blade to avoid nX resonance. For longer blades, however, the lower natural frequency requires that the design of the shaft and blade takes into account the coupling of the blade vibration mode with nodal diameter k = 0 and k = 1 with the vibration of the shaft. The present work analyzes the coupling of the parallel motion of the shaft with the in-plane vibration of the blade within k = 1 modes. More specifically, the existence of an unstable region due to coupling and the coupled resonance in an eight-blade (N = 8) where each blade is assumed to be a 1-DOF mass-spring system were analyzed in detail. Analysis was also made on the forced vibration of a stable damped system. At a rotational speed Ω = |ωs − ωb |, the vibration of the shaft was limited to a relatively small amplitude due to anti-resonance points resulting from the dynamic vibration absorber effect, while the resonance of the blades was relatively big amplitude. A violent coupled resonance resulting from the dynamic absorber effect of the blades and shaft was observed at a rotational speed Ω = ωs + ωb . The resonance in blade vibration at Ω = |ωb − ωs | was experimentally confirmed.Copyright © 2008 by ASME