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A consideration of support asymmetry in an automatic ball balancing system

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Original languageEnglish
Publication date2008
StatePublished

Abstract

We present an analysis of a two-plane automatic balancing device for rigid rotors. Ball bearings, which are free to travel around a race, are used to eliminate imbalance due to shaft eccentricity or misalignment. Here we consider the effect that asymmetries such as support anisotropy have on the auto-balancing process. Stability diagrams show that the device is robust to the considered asymmetries when the rotation speeds are supercritical and the mass imbalance is small.

Additional information

Additional information: A paper submitted to the 6th ENOC-2008 Conference, organised by EUROMECH (European Mechanics Society), to be held June 30 — July 4, 2008, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Sponsorship: EPSRC, Rolls-Royce plc.

Documents

  • Abbenoc08 tc

    Preprint (usually an early version) , 210 KB, PDF-document

Research areas

  • control of oscillations, applications, nonlinear systems

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