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DOI 10.1007/s10033-017-0153-x
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Abstract The viscous damping coefficient (VDC) of with the measured results with a good accuracy. The pro-
hydraulic actuators is crucial for system modeling, control posed method provides an instruction to predict the VDC in
and dynamic characteristic analysis. Currently, the resear- system modeling and analysis.
ches on hydraulic actuators focus on behavior assessment,
promotion of control performance and efficiency. However, Keywords Hydraulic actuator Viscous damping
the estimation of the VDC is difficult due to a lack of study. coefficient Friction Tandem seal
Firstly, using two types of hydraulic cylinders, behaviors of
the VDC are experimentally examined with velocities and
pressure variations. For the tested plunger type hydraulic 1 Introduction
cylinder, the exponential model B ¼ atb ; ða [ 0; b [ 0Þ
or B ¼ a1 eb1 t þ a2 eb2 t ða1 ; a2 [ 0; b1 ; b2 [ 0Þ, fits the Hydraulic actuation systems are currently used in various
relation between the VDC and velocities for a given pressure branches of industrial applications, since they have many
of chamber with high precision. The magnitude of the VDC advantages such as high power-to-weight ratio, fast
decreases almost linearly under certain velocities when dynamic response, easily realized automatic control, wide
increasing the chamber pressure from 0.6 MPa to 6.0 MPa. range of speed control, etc. In the past decades, much
Furthermore, the effects of the chamber pressures on the emphasis has been put on behavior assessment, improving
VDC of piston and plunge type hydraulic cylinders are efficiency and control performance [1–4].
different due to different sealing types. In order to investi- Yet the challenge remains, especially in the develop-
gate the VDC of a plunger type hydraulic actuator drasti- ment of hydraulic control system. One of the important
cally, a steady-state numerical model has been developed to issues that needs to be considered is the uncertainties like
describe the mechanism incorporating tandem seal lubrica- parameter variations in the system which occur inevitably
tion, back-up ring related friction behaviors and shear stress [5, 6]. As it is well known, the VDC which in fact varies
of fluid. It is shown that the simulated results of VDC agree with time as operation condition play a significant role in
the dynamic characteristics of a hydraulic system. How-
ever, due to a lack of the understanding of the VDC, it is
Supported by National Basic Research Development Program of normally defined as a constant or a range of variations
China (Grant No. 2011CB706802), Hunan Provincial Foundation for based upon empirical estimation [3, 7, 8].
Postgraduate of China (Grant No. CX2013B062), and Innovation Burenin [9] developed a method to determine the VDC
Driven Program of Central South University of China (Grant No.
2015CX002).
based on equation of the continuity of flow and Newton’s
second law acting on the piston. They have shown that the
& Qing Pan VDC is a constant when the hydraulic actuator is operated
panqing0905@csu.edu.cn at quasilinear operating regime. Qian et al. [10] proposed
1 an identification procedure to determine the effective
State Key Laboratory of High Performance Complex
Manufacturing, Central South University, damping coefficient of a servo-hydraulic actuator using a
Changsha 410083, Hunan, China series of white noise inputs and genetic algorithm base on a
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fourth-order transfer function. However, the VDC is usu- It is shown in the experimental tests that full film and mixed
ally estimated as a constant since the identification exper- lubrication do occur over a wide range of operations [26, 29].
iments are operated in the case of constant load. On the As can be seen, the relationship between the viscous friction
other hand, the estimated error depends on the accuracy of coefficient and the operating condition is rather complicated
the model developed. It is very difficult to get the knowl- and therefore, it is unrealistic to capture the detailed charac-
edge of variation of VDC by using identification technique. teristics by experimental measurements merely.
Chinniah, et al. [11] developed a transfer function model of The paper is structured as follows. Section 2 describes
electrohydraulic actuator and an extended Kalman filter the experimental apparatus and test method. The numerical
was utilized to estimate the VDC. model and hydrodynamics in the operation of the hydraulic
Usually, the VDC is incorporated into the formulation of actuator are demonstrated in Section 3. The experimental
viscous friction, which is demonstrated in several mathe- and simulation results are given in Section 4, in addition
matical friction models [12–15]. It is common knowledge that the validity of the method of estimating the viscous
the Stribeck curve demonstrates good validity in depicting damping coefficient is verified. And finally, the main
steady-state friction characteristics. In the classical Stribeck conclusion is drawn in Section 5.
model, the viscous damping coefficient is presented in the
form of velocity-related coefficient. Since the combination of
Sribeck effect, viscous friction and Coulomb friction are 2 Experimental Setup and Investigation
included into friction models, e.g., Stribeck model [14],
Karnopp model [16], LuGre model [15], modified LuGre A photo of the experiment setup and schematic diagram of the
model [17, 18], GMS model [19, 20], etc., similarly, the test bench utilized in this study are shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The
coefficient is thought to be a constant that is independent of system pressure is powered by a load-sensible variable dis-
pressure,packing material or velocity. Therefore, investiga- placement pump (1), which delivers the fluid pressure up to 25
tions of variations and influential factors of the viscous MPa. The actuators of the test platform are noted as main
damping coefficient will be favorable to modify friction cylinder (10) (cylinder 1, used for testing) and load cylin-
models for hydraulic actuators. On the other hand, the viscous der (13) (cylinder 2, for loading), and the rods of the two
damping coefficient, which is related to system damping, hydraulic actuators are coupled by a steel joint, where a force
plays a key role in system stability analysis [21–23]. However, transducer (12) is fixed on the right side of Fig. 2. The testing
correlative research on predicting the specific parameter is not actuator (10) has a 0.11 m bore, a 0.08 m rod diameter and a
adequate at all. There is therefore a need to investigate the 0.56 m stroke. Two pressure transducers (8) and (9), are used
viscous friction coefficient drastically, by taking into account to measure the pressure and, in the chambers of the measured
state variables and describing the performance of the system. cylinder. The motion of the tested actuator is controlled by a
The method developed in the present study does so. proportional valve (3) (manufactured by DUPLOMATIC,
As is known to all, the viscous damping coefficient is an RPCED1-16/T3/51-24), that is mounted on a reinforced
indicator to characterize viscous friction force. Neverthe- platform, which can supply the cylinder with pressured fluid at
less, friction resistance of hydraulic cylinders stems from a maximum rate of 16 L/min. The proportional valve receives
the interaction of piston seals/guiding materials, contacting control signals from a 16-bit analog output module of Pro-
surfaces and film lubrication dynamics. Thus, many note- grammable Logic Controller (PLC, manufactured by SIE-
worthy analyses have been conducted to understand how MENS), which is shown in the electronic unit of Fig. 1.
the seal and contacting interfaces perform under lubricated
Load
conditions [24–27]. Researchers have shown that the vis-
Rod displacement
coelastic effect and geometrical configuration of recipro-
Pressure
cating seals play an important role in friction behaviors of
the rod, and that the pressure distribution in the sealing Control panel
Actuators
zone depends on hydrodynamic effects, film dynamics and
viscosity of the fluid [28]. In addition, the local deforma-
Hydraulic
tion of the packing material is a result of the diversification Control medium
effect of pressure distribution and contact mechanics at the signal
seal-rod interface. The fluid viscosity is affected by the
hydrodynamic pressure distribution and temperature of the
Hydrovalve Power supply unit
lubricant. Due to the highly coupled effects between the assembly
above-mentioned micro-processes, it is very questionable
Electronic control unit
to predict the viscous friction coefficient that is considered
to be independent of internal conditions. Fig. 1 Experimental setup
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(a) (b)
(c) (d)
Load higher the chamber pressure is, the smaller the viscous
Displacement damping coefficient becomes under constant velocities.
Pressure Obviously, chamber pressure exerts distinctive impacts
Control panel
on the VDC of piston type and plunger type hydraulic
Plunge type hydraulic cylinder cylinders, respectively.
The seal type used in Test B is completely different
from that in Test A. For Test A, DAS assembly seals are
Control
signal deformed by pressures from none rod chamber and rod
chamber. The higher the value of load is, the tighter the
Electronic control unit Valves seal performance is. In terms of step rings, the hierarchic
Power supply unit
structure reduces the inner ring from contacting with rod.
In addition, the magnitude of VDC of test A is larger than
Fig. 4 Experimental setup of the hydraulic actuators that of test B. This is due to that there are two parts of seals
come into contact with cylinder for piston type actuator.
pressure. However, increasing the velocities lead to a decline
in the VDC at certain value of pressure as shown in Figs. 7
and 8. In addition, the following exponential model fits the 3 Problem Formulation
relation between viscous damping coefficient and velocities
for a given pressure of chamber with a good accuracy: Fig. 9 shows the sealing configuration used for the typical
b
B ¼ at ; ða [ 0; b [ 0Þ hydraulic cylinder, viz., it consists of cylinder block, the
reciprocating piston rod, the seal and back-up ring. In order
B ¼ a1 expðb1 tÞ þ a2 expðb2 tÞ; ða1 ; a2 [ 0; b1 ; b2 [ 0Þ to estimate the viscous damping coefficient, friction on the
rod must be calculated. Thus the source of viscous friction
Moreover, changing the chamber pressure, leads to large for the actuator is presented as follows:
variations of the VDC. The magnitude of the VDC changes A. Tandem sealing zone. Rod sealing region is utilized
linearly from 0.65 MN s m1 to 0.2 MN s m1 , when to prevent external leakage from rod chamber to the out-
increasing the pressure from 0.6 MPa to 6.0 MPa. The side. Usually, multiple seals (named as primary, secondary
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(a) (a)
(b)
Fig. 5 Example of test B: (a) measured velocities v, measured load (b)
FL , measured chamber pressure p1 for the condition of 5 mm/s, 6
MPa; (b) measured displacement x, measured friction force Fr , Fig. 6 Effects of velocity and pressure on VDC: (a) B v.s. chamber
measured viscous damping coefficient B for the condition of 5 mm/s, pressure p1 and velocity v; (b) contour map of VDC
6 MPa
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O x
Guide sleeve Wiper ring
which is given in one-dimensional form, where h is average
Stepseal
(a) (b) local film thickness, h is nominal average film thickness. ua
Cylinder and ub are velocities of seals and rod, respectively. Note
block
that ua ¼ U, ub ¼ 0 in this work, U stands for velocity of
the rod. The flow factors /x , /s , are introduced into the
Rod Outstroke
Instroke Reynolds equation in order to account for the effect of
surface topology (roughness) in the sealing regime [31, 32].
The composite root mean square (RMS) roughness takes
the form
qffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
r ¼ r2a þ r2b ; ð5Þ
Fig. 9 Schema of seal configuration of hydraulic actuator: (a) rod
chamber; (b) rod sealing zone
where ra and rb denote the RMS roughness of contact
to the rod. The actuator fluid is assumed to be Newtonian partners.
and the stroke length is larger than the seal width. In order to account for the effects of cavitation on
The dynamic viscosity of the fluid is given by the friction and the viscous damping coefficient, an index, F
Roelands’ formula, and a variable, U, is introduced [26],
g ¼ g0 expððlng0 þ 9:67Þ½1 þ ð1 þ p=p0 Þz Þ: ð2Þ
The fluid mass density is presented as
Outer seal
ca p
q ¼ q0 1 þ ; ð3Þ
1 þ cb p
where g ¼ g0 ðp ¼ 0; T ¼ T0 Þ; q ¼ q0 ðp ¼ 0; T ¼ T0 Þ Sealed Inner Inner-seal
fluid seal region
denote initial fluid viscosity and density, respectively, and pinter
psealed pou ter
ca , cb , z are fluid constants, p stands for fluid pressure, p0 is l1 l2
(a)
Pressure-viscosity coefficient, p0 ¼ 1:96 108 : ub
lubricant film
formation
3.1 Tandem Sealing Zone O x
O
x
h
Inner Outer ua
y boundary
(b) boundary y (c)
As demonstrated in Fig. 10(a), seals in the tandem
arrangement are used in rod sealing zone. A step ring and
Fig. 10 Schematics of combined double seal: (a) tandem seals;
an Yx-shaped seal is embedded in the groove of the (b) static contact condition; (c) during operation
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In the liquid region, where l represents the asperity density, An denotes nominal
contact area, R is asperity radius. Due to the existence of
F ¼ 1; FU ¼ P [ 0: contact pressure, there is a shear stress on the rod, and the
While in the cavitation region, asperity related shear stress in sealing zone is computed
F ¼ 0, U\0, P ¼ 0 and k ¼ q=qc ¼ 1 þ U; where k using a dry friction coefficient
denotes mixing ratio of liquid and gas, P stands for U
sc ¼ fpc : ð10Þ
dimensionless pressure, P ¼ p=pa . The boundary condi- jU j
tions are applied to rod sealing zone. In terms of the pri-
mary seal (step ring seal), the fluid pressure at the inner In this investigation, the dry friction coefficient f of step
boundary is equal to the sealed pressure, while that at the ring and Yx shaped seal is set to 0.1 and 0.25 [26–28],
outer boundary is equal to the pressure at the inner-seal respectively.
region (Fig. 9). For the secondary seal (Yx shaped seal), Based on elastic mechanics theory, the deformation of
the fluid pressure at the inner boundary is equal to the arbitrary point at the contact interface is expressed as
Z
pressure at the inner-seal region, while that at the outer 1 t2 s2
dðxÞ ¼ pf ðsÞlnðx sÞ2 ds
boundary is equal to the ambient pressure. pE s1
In order to describe the interaction of surface roughness Z ð11Þ
1 þ t s2
and fluid, the ratio, dimensionless average film thickness pf ðsÞds þ C;
pE s1
H ¼ h=r is introduced. The dimensionless average local
film thickness is defined by where s is the additional coordinate, pf ðsÞ stands for arbi-
Z 1 trary load applied to the seal, C is a constant, t is Poisson’s
H¼ ðH þ dÞf ðdÞdd; ð6Þ ratio of the seal. It is assumed that the micro-deformation
h of the asperities on the sealing interface does not affect
where f ðdÞ is the probability density function of d, usually large deformation of the seal. Thus the load balance con-
a Gaussian distribution is employed. dition is given by
Z xe Z xe
The fluid related shear stress on the rod [26, 27] in psc ðxÞdx fpðxÞ þ pc ðxÞgdx ¼ 0: ð12Þ
sealing zone can be computed from x0 x0
rpa 1 f H oFP The first term of Eq. (12) stands for supporting load
sf ¼ ð / /fss þ /fpp Þ; ð7Þ contributed by static contact pressure distribution (mounted
li g^ H f 2 o^x
& pressured), the second term deviates bearing capacity
where g^ stands for dimensionless fluid viscosity, g^ ¼ g=g0 , caused by fluid pressure and dynamic contact pressure
x^ is dimensionless axial coordinate x^ ¼ x=li , li ði ¼ 1; 2Þ is distribution.
the length of sealing zone. f is dimensionless rod velocity, Then, the normal deformation of seal lip is computed as
Z
f ¼ g0 Uli pa r2 . /f , /fss and /fpp are shear stress factors, 1 t2 s 2
dðxÞ ¼ fpðsÞ þ pc ðsÞ psc ðsÞglnðx sÞ2 ds
which are obtained from literature [26, 32], E denotes pE s1
Young’s modulus of the seal. Z
1 þ t s2
fpðsÞ þ pc ðsÞ psc ðsÞgds:
pE s1
3.1.2 Contact Mechanics ð13Þ
Taking the load balance Eq. (12) into consideration, the
The contacting pressure is computed by using the Green-
deformation of the seal lip in Eq. (13) yields
wood-Williamson surface contact model [33]. In this Z s2
1 t2
model, all the asperities are termed as a collection of dðxÞ ¼ fpðsÞ þ pc ðsÞ psc ðsÞglnðx sÞ2 ds: ð14Þ
pE s1
spherical caps having the same radius of curvature R. The
contact area Ar and contact pressure pc are given by The film thickness Hi at the ith nodes is expressed in the
Z 1 2 form of
1 z Hi ¼ Hs þ dðxÞ=r; ð15Þ
Ar ¼ pffiffiffiffiffiffi plAn Rr ðz HÞexp dz; ð8Þ
2p H 2
Z 1 2 where Hs is hypothetical dry film thickness, which is
4 E 1 3 3 z obtained from Ref. [27].
pc ¼ pffiffiffiffiffiffi lR 2 r2 ðz HÞ 2 exp dz; ð9Þ
3 2p 1 t2 H 2
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Instantaneous transport rate is given by 3.3 Viscous Shear of Oil on Rod in Chamber
/x 3 oP þ /s Þ:
q^ ¼ H þ 6fðH ð16Þ In chambers of the cylinder, pressure gradient in the
g^ o^
x
direction of rod path is not considered, i.e.,
For the tandem seals, the mass flow rate must be the
op
same for the inner and outer seal [34, 35], i.e., ¼ 0: ð23Þ
ox
q^inner ¼ q^outer ; ð17Þ
Therefore, the viscous shear stress on the rod is
which is different from that of single seal case. described as
Through the above analysis, the tandem seal related g
friction force is then calculated from sv ¼ U : ð24Þ
hv
ZZ
Ft ¼ ðsf þ sc Þdxdy: ð18Þ where hv stands for the distance between the rod and the
At cylinder block. And the friction force generated from the
viscous shear of fluid is expressed as
ZZ
3.2 Auxiliary Sealing Zone
Fv ¼ sv dxdy: ð25Þ
Av
As illustrated in Fig. 9 (b), the back-up ring in the
Thus, the viscous damping coefficient of the actuator
hydraulic cylinder is used to eliminate direct contact of the
takes the form
surfaces of piston and cylinder block. Besides, it gives ZZ ZZ ZZ
support to the linear motion of the piston. Experiments 1
sb
y¼0 dxdy þ
_ _
B¼ ðsf þ sc Þdxdy þ sv dxdy :
have shown that the pressure at the inter-seal region can be U At Aa Av
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Viscous damping
coefficient
element model, the mesh of O-ring was created using Since fluid mechanics analysis, contact mechanics
element type Quad 4node 182, which is suitable for large analysis and seal deformation are strongly coupled, an
deformation analysis. Next, a contact model is imple- iteration procedure is conducted. In every loop, both
mented using contact elements CONTACT172 and CON- pressure and film thickness are updated until the flow
TACT169. The elastic deformation of step ring under rate of step ring and Yx shaped seal matches. For the
different magnitude of pressures is investigated. The pro- calculation of back-up ring, fluid mechanics analysis and
cedure is the same for static mechanics analysis of the elastic deformation are adjusted to film thickness
secondary seal (Figs. 13 and 14). updating for the sake of converged pressure. After the
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Pi Pi
i¼1
(1) GB/T 3542.1-2005/ISO 3601-1:2002, MOD: O rings eP ; ð29Þ
PN
ðkþ1Þ
Part1: Inside diameters, cross-sections, tolerances Pi
i¼1
and size identification code;
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Hi Hi
the step ring. Thus, the friction behavior can be different
i¼1 from that of piston type cylinder, as is shown in Section 2.
eH ; ð30Þ
P
N
ðkþ1Þ Thus, the value of viscous damping coefficient varies with
Hi
i¼1 the seal type employed by hydraulic actuators. The film
thickness distribution of step ring and back-up ring for the
where k denotes the previous iteration and k þ 1 stands for
outstroke are shown in Fig. 18 and Fig. 19. Note that the
the current iteration results.
film thickness is dimensionless. It is shown in Fig. 18 that
as the sealed pressure of the cylinder chamber increases,
the average film thickness increases in the sealing interface
4 Results and Discussion
which leads to the phenomenon of Figs. 7 and 16.
In Fig. 19, it seems that the magnitude of the film
Fig. 15 compares the viscous damping coefficient of a
thickness changes little along the direction of motion on the
typical cylinder calculated by the methodology adopted in
whole for different velocities. Fig. 20 shows the back-up
this investigation and that of measured under the pressure
ring related viscous damping coefficient with the variation
of 6.0 MPa. It is demonstrated that the coefficient decrease
of velocities. Increasing the velocity from 0.5 mm/s to 3.0
with the increasing of velocity. The measured results agree
mm/s, leads to the decrease of the coefficient, which is
with the simulated results very well. Also, a asymptote of
similar to the trend of experimental data as presented in
this coefficient is observed, and it can be explained by
Section 2. In terms of viscous shear for chamber related,
Eq. (31), which is derivated from Stribeck model, i.e.,
the results come to the constant value of 41.72, since it has
1
B¼ Fc þ ðFs Fc Þ exp ðv=vs Þd þ r2 ; ð31Þ nothing to do with velocity, which can be deduced from
v Eq. (24).
where Fs ; Fc ; r2 are both constants. The first term of It can be deduce from Figs. 15 and 20 that, the viscous
Eq. (31) approaches zero when increasing velocity of rod, resistance mainly stems from tandem seal, and the viscous
i.e., B approaches r2 gradually. Base on the experimental shear in chamber and back-up ring related viscous damping
data obtained in Section 2, the parameters are identified coefficient can be neglected during engineering
by using the GA (Genetic Algorithm) optimized least- calculations.
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Qing Pan, born in 1988, is currently a PhD candidate at State Key Peng-Da Ma, born in 1989, is currently a master candidate at State
Laboratory of High Performance Complex Manufacturing, Central Key Laboratory of High Performance Complex Manufacturing,
South University, China. His research interests include process Central South University, China. E-mail: mapengda@126.com
modeling and control, integration of design and control of electro-
hydraulic systems. Tel: ?86-15111023006; E-mail: Jun Ma, born in 1991, is currently a master candidate at State Key
panqing0905@csu.edu.cn Laboratory of High Performance Complex Manufacturing, Central
South University, China. E-mail: majunl@csu.edu.cn
Yi-Bo Li, born in 1981, is currently an associate professor at State
Key Laboratory of High Performance Complex Manufacturing,
Central South University, China. E-mail: liyibo@csu.edu.cn
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