Minimization of vibration power transmission from rotating machinery to a flexible supporting plate

This paper deals with the problem of optimum design of a foundation for rotating machinery with a view to minimize vibration transmission from a machine source to its supporting structure. The problem of analysis and optimization of the installation systems of machinery has been extensively researched on the assumption of a rigid supporting structure. The design based on a rigid supporting structure model is reasonable for the installation of machinery in many real engineering situations. However, this rigid support based model may not be appropriate for the problem studied herein where the machinery is to be installed on a relatively flexible supporting plate. Thus, a generalized mathematical model of mobility power flow is developed in this paper, with a rotating machine as vibration source, resilient mounts as isolator, and a flexible supporting plate as receiver. The objective of minimizing vibration transmission is realized by optimization of stiffness coefficients of resilient mounts with a constraint on the vibration level of the machine. The design objective is chosen as the minimization of the power flow transmitted to the flexible supporting plate through the resilient mounts at the excitation frequency of the machinery. Both a single excitation frequency and a range of excitation frequencies are considered. A gradient-based mathematical programing method is selected for its advantage of efficiently solving the current type of optimization problem with multiple mounts and multi-degree-of-freedom vibration transmission. The sensitivities of the objective and the constraint functions with respect to the design variables are derived analytically. The design and performance of the optimized machinery foundation is illustrated and discussed using several numerical examples. The optimized mounting system is suitable for the installation case of a rotating machine with a low or medium service speed on a flexible supporting plate structure.

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