A FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH TO PAD FLEXIBILITY EFFECTS IN TILT PAD JOURNAL BEARINGS .1. SINGLE PAD ANALYSIS Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A general method of incorporating pad flexibility effects into tilting pad isothermal bearing analysis is developed. The pad assembly approach is extended using 2-dimensional finite elements to determine pad deformations of a single pad. The pad deformations are represented by a single degree of freedom, the change in the pad radius of curvature, thus the current method is an approximate approach. The equations to calculate frequency reduced coefficients for a single pad are presented. Synchronously reduced coefficients for a single pad are in agreement with previous curved beam approximate methods and a more rigorous iterative approach. The finite element pad model provides more versatility in modeling nonuniform pad dimensions and the skewed boundary conditions which occur at the spherical pivot-pad socket interfaces.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF TRIBOLOGY-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

author list (cited authors)

  • EARLES, L. L., PALAZZOLO, A. B., & ARMENTROUT, R. W.

citation count

  • 40

complete list of authors

  • EARLES, LL||PALAZZOLO, AB||ARMENTROUT, RW

publication date

  • April 1990