A modal approach for chaotic vibrations of a drillstring Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology to predict vibrations of drilllstrings for oil recovery service. The paper extends a previous model in the literature to include drill collar flexibility utilizing a modal coordinate condensed, finite element approach. The nonlinear effects of drillstring / borehole contact, friction and quadratic damping are included. Bifurcation diagrams are presented to illustrate the effects of speed, friction, stabilizer gap and drill collar length on chaotic vibration response. A study is conducted on factors for improving the accuracy of Lyapunov Exponents to predict the presence of chaos. This study considers the length of time to steady state, the number and duration of linearization sub-intervals, the presence of rigid body modes and the number of finite elements and modal coordinates. The results may be helpful for computing Lyapunov exponents of other types of nonlinear vibrating systems with many degrees of freedom. Copyright 2009 by ASME.

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009

author list (cited authors)

  • Mongkolcheep, K., Palazzolo, A., Ruimi, A., & Tucker, R.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Mongkolcheep, K||Palazzolo, A||Ruimi, A||Tucker, R

publication date

  • June 2010