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Effects of floating ring bearing manufacturing tolerance clearances on the dynamic characteristics for turbocharger

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The inner and outer oil film dynamic characteristic coefficients of floating ring bearings(FRBs) change due to the manufacturing tolerance of the floating ring, journal and intermediate, which leads to high-speed turbocharger’s vibration too large and even causes nonlinear vibration accident. However, the investigation of floating ring bearing manufacturing tolerance clearance on the rotordynamic characteristics is less at present. In order to study the influence law of inner and outer clearance on turbocharger vibration, the rotor dynamic motion equations of turbocharger supported in FRBs are derived by analyzing the size relations between floating ring, journal and intermediate for the inner and outer oil film clearances, the time transient response analysis for combination of FRBs clearance are developed. A realistic turbocharger is taken as a research object, the FE model of the turbocharger with FRBs is modeled. Under the conditions of four kinds of limit state bearing clearances for inner and outer oil film, the nonlinear transient analyses are performed based on the established FE dynamic models of the nonlinear rotor-FRBs system applied incentive combinations of gravity and unbalance force, respectively. From the waterfall, the simulation results show that the speed for the appearance of fractional frequency is not identical and the amplitude magnitude is different under the four kinds of bearing manufacturing tolerance limit clearances, and fractional frequency does not appear in the turbocharger and the amplitude is minimum under the ODMin/IDMax bearing manufacturing tolerance clearances. The turbocharger vibration is reduced by controlling the manufacturing tolerance clearance combinations of FRBs, which is helpful for the dynamic design and production-manufacturing of high-speed turbocharger.

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  1. Health Maintenance for Mechanical Equipment Key Lab of Hunan Province, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, 411201, China

    Longkai Wang, Guangfu Bin & Xuejun Li

  2. Xeca Turbo Technologies(Beijing) Co., Ltd., Beijing, 100000, China

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Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos. 51205121, 51375162), Scientific Research Foundation of Hunan Provincial Education Department of China(Grant No. 13A023), and Postgraduate Innovation Foundation of Hunan University of Science and Technology, China(Grant No. S140020)

WANG Longkai, male, born in 1990, is currently a master candidate at Health Maintenance for Mechanical Equipment Key Lab of Hunan Province, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China. His research interests include rotordynamics, automotive turbochargers and oil film bearing.

BIN Guangfu, male, born in 1981, is currently an associate professor at Health Maintenance for Mechanical Equipment Key Lab of Hunan Province, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China. He acted as an academic visitor in University of Ottawa from 2008 to 2009. He received his PhD degree from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China, in 2013. His research interests include rotating machinery dynamics and modal analysis, shafting dynamic balance, mechanical dynamic testing.

LI Xuejun, male, born in 1969, is currently a professor at Health Maintenance for Mechanical Equipment Key Lab of Hunan Province, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China. He received his PhD degree from Central South University, China, in 2003. He received post-doctor degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 2009. His main research interests include mechanical dynamics and fault diagnosis, signal analysis and processing.

ZHANG Xuefeng, male, is currently a general manager and an engineer at Xeca Turbo Technologies(Beijing) Co., Ltd., China. His research interests include turbomachinery and rotordynamics.

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Wang, L., Bin, G., Li, X. et al. Effects of floating ring bearing manufacturing tolerance clearances on the dynamic characteristics for turbocharger. Chin. J. Mech. Eng. 28, 530–540 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3901/CJME.2015.0319.034

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