Impact of system anisotropy on vibration reduction of rotating machinery and its evaluation method

The orbit shape responded from each concerned section of anisotropic rotating machinery varies along with the axial position of unbalance force, especially its parameters like the inclination angle and the major to minor axis ratio. Considering the axial position difference between the original unbalance mass existed and the balancing planes adopted, vibration reduction with balancing could be disturbed by the anisotropy of rotating machinery. Through in-depth analysis on these mechanisms, a method for anisotropy evaluation is presented based on the dispersion characteristics estimation of system difference coefficients. Balancing experiments under different degrees of system difference coefficients dispersion and different unbalance mass distribution are implemented to show the effectiveness of this method. Essentially, the unbalance response of each concerned section is a synthesis of system difference coefficients and unbalance mass. Therefore, as weight coefficients of unbalance mass, the dispersion evaluation indexes of system difference coefficients can be used in distributing the original unbalance mass to further reduce the disturbance of system anisotropy to vibration reduction. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.