Nonlinear analysis of the friction-induced vibrations of a rotor-stator system

Abstract In this paper, the vibratory dynamics of a system consists of a rotor and a stator with friction at the interface is studied. The main goal is to study how taking into account the deviation of the relative velocities associated with each point of the interface (rotor/stator) influences the model. The inclusion of this deviation, not usually modeled for this type of system, allows taking the friction plane into account. However, introducing this mechanism in a model with a friction interface leads to damping that in turn has an impact on the values and the convergence of the amplitudes of vibration. In addition, the deviation has a significant impact only when the rotation frequency of the rotating part is low. Thus this paper also focuses on the separation occurring at the interface. The method used to take this separation into account is presented. The addition of this separation in the model makes it possible to obtain more physically realistic limit cycles in the case of high rotation frequency. These two phenomena are combined in order to obtain physical amplitudes.