Master Dissertation:

Dynamics of an Horizontal Rotor on Elastomeric Bearing Supports
Ramiro G. Díaz Chávez

Viscoelastic Passive Controllers are an important field of technological research due to the development of new materials and design techniques. Damping properties allow an easy retrofit of existing machines with excessive vibration problems, developing Elastomeric Bearing Supports. They are an economic and effective solution in the suppression or attenuation of vibrations in dynamic systems suffering from instability or resonance problems, which often lack of sufficient damping. This work involves the study of an horizontal rotor with elastomeric bearing supports, adapted of another one, the study of several effects on his operation, the measurement of his motion, the identification of the problem’s parameters, the measurement and validation from the simulated results in a numeric model. Phenomena included in the study are the gyroscopic effect (rotor out of the middle), rotor unbalance and shaft bow. In this work the system’s parameters were determined using identification, modal analysis and nonlinear optimization techniques due to the anisotropy of the system.