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    Electrodynamic bearings (EDBs) represent an alternative to classical magnetic bearings for high spin speed machines. Their relatively simple working principle, which exploits repulsive forces due to eddy currents to passively support a rotor, leads to very promising characteristics. However, although EDBs have been a topic of research for many decades [1], they still haven’t found great interest for industrial applications. This is due to the difficulty in guaranteeing stable levitation. Differently from permanent magnet bearings, where instability is linked to the Earnshaw theorem, in case of EDBs, the instability is linked to the presence of rotating damping [2-5]. In the past few years some attention has been paid to the stabilization of a rigid rotor’s cylindrical modes, but no consideration about its conical modes was presented [2-5]. In the present paper we expose on the stability of the rigid body modes of a rotor on a magnetic suspension employing EDBs. Initially a general analysis of a simple gyroscopic rotor is presented to highlight the influence of the rotor’s parameters. Finally, the modeling approach previously used by the authors on study of a rotor’s cylindrical modes stability [3, 5] is employed to develop a more general model of the rotor and its suspension (Fig. 1a), thus allowing investigating all the rotor’s rigid body modes and their stability. The possible occurrence of an unstable conical mode is shown resorting to root locus analysis (Fig. 1b), and some alternatives for its stabilization are discussed.

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    Electrodynamic bearings (EDBs) represent an alternative to classical magnetic bearings for high spin speed machines. Their relatively simple working principle, which exploits repulsive forces due to eddy currents to passively support a rotor, leads to very promising characteristics. However, although EDBs have been a topic of research for many decades [1], they still haven’t found great interest for industrial applications. This is due to the difficulty in guaranteeing stable levitation. Differently from permanent magnet bearings, where instability is linked to the Earnshaw theorem, in case of EDBs, the instability is linked to the presence of rotating damping [2-5]. In the past few years some attention has been paid to the stabilization of a rigid rotor’s cylindrical modes, but no consideration about its conical modes was presented [2-5]. In the present paper we expose on the stability of the rigid body modes of a rotor on a magnetic suspension employing EDBs. Initially a general analysis of a simple gyroscopic rotor is presented to highlight the influence of the rotor’s parameters. Finally, the modeling approach previously used by the authors on study of a rotor’s cylindrical modes stability [3, 5] is employed to develop a more general model of the rotor and its suspension (Fig. 1a), thus allowing investigating all the rotor’s rigid body modes and their stability. The possible occurrence of an unstable conical mode is shown resorting to root locus analysis (Fig. 1b), and some alternatives for its stabilization are discussed.

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    Electrodynamic Bearings Stability - Abstract

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    Electrodynamic bearings (EDBs) represent an alternative to classical magnetic bearings for high spin speed machines. Their relatively simple working principle, which exploits repulsive forces due to eddy currents to passively support a rotor, leads to very promising characteristics. However, although EDBs have been a topic of research for many decades [1], they still haven’t found great interest for industrial applications. This is due to the difficulty in guaranteeing stable levitation. Differently from permanent magnet bearings, where instability is linked to the Earnshaw theorem, in case of EDBs, the instability is linked to the presence of rotating damping [2-5]. In the past few years some attention has been paid to the stabilization of a rigid rotor’s cylindrical modes, but no consideration about its conical modes was presented [2-5]. In the present paper we expose on the stability of the rigid body modes of a rotor on a magnetic suspension employing EDBs. Initially a general analysis of a simple gyroscopic rotor is presented to highlight the influence of the rotor’s parameters. Finally, the modeling approach previously used by the authors on study of a rotor’s cylindrical modes stability [3, 5] is employed to develop a more general model of the rotor and its suspension (Fig. 1a), thus allowing investigating all the rotor’s rigid body modes and their stability. The possible occurrence of an unstable conical mode is shown resorting to root locus analysis (Fig. 1b), and some alternatives for its stabilization are discussed.

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    ELECTRODYNAMIC BEARINGS STABILITY

    Joaquim Girardello Detoni*, Fabrizio Impinna, Nicola Amati, Andrea Tonoli


    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - Mechatronics Laboratory, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca
    degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy.
    Emails: joaquim.detoni@polito.it, fabrizio.impinna@polito.it, nicola.amati@polito.it, andrea.tonoli@polito.it
    *Corresponding author
    Electrodynamic bearings (EDBs) represent an alternative to classical magnetic bearings for high spin speed
    machines. Their relatively simple working principle, which exploits repulsive forces due to eddy currents to passively
    support a rotor, leads to very promising characteristics. However, although EDBs have been a topic of research for
    many decades [1], they still havent found great interest for industrial applications. This is due to the difficulty in
    guaranteeing stable levitation. Differently from permanent magnet bearings, where instability is linked to the
    Earnshaw theorem, in case of EDBs, the instability is linked to the presence of rotating damping [2-5].
    In the past few years some attention has been paid to the stabilization of a rigid rotors cylindrical modes, but
    no consideration about its conical modes was presented [2-5]. In the present paper we expose on the stability of the
    rigid body modes of a rotor on a magnetic suspension employing EDBs. Initially a general analysis of a simple
    gyroscopic rotor is presented to highlight the influence of the rotors parameters. Finally, the modeling approach
    previously used by the authors on study of a rotors cylindrical modes stability [3, 5] is employed to develop a more
    general model of the rotor and its suspension (Fig. 1a), thus allowing investigating all the rotors rigid body modes
    and their stability. The possible occurrence of an unstable conical mode is shown resorting to root locus analysis
    (Fig. 1b), and some alternatives for its stabilization are discussed.

    (a)
    (b)
    Figure 1: (a) Schematic representation of a gyroscopic rotor supporter by EDBs; (b) root locus showing the
    presence of two unstable rotor modes, forward whirl and conical modes.
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    [3]
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    A. Tonoli, N. Amati, F. Impinna, J. G. Detoni, A solution for the stabilization of electrodynamic bearings:
    modeling and experimental validation, Journal of Vibrations and Acousticts, vol. 133 (021004), 2011.

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