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Lecture 6: Field Balancing

The Lecture Contains:

Field Balancing of Rigid Rotor

Field Balancing of Flexible Rotor

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Module 2: Excitation reduction at source and factors affecting vibration level

Lecture 6: Field Balancing

Field Balancing of a Rotor

Method of balancing a rotor is based on an extension of balancing of a thin disc during rotation

Following the text book "Principles of Vibration Control", one can show that for balancing of thin
disc one needs to measure
a. amplitude ( ) and phase ( ) of vibration
b. the effect of adding additional mass ( ) to the disc for the amplitude ( ) and
phase ( ).

Accordingly, denoting one can find the balancing mass ( ) and it's location

in polar coordinates as

where, is the radial distance of the trial mass and is the angular location.

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Lecture 6: Field Balancing

For balancing of a rotor one needs three trest runs and measure the amplitude and phase of
vibration at two different locations 1 and 2.

At first, amplitudes and phases corresponding to unbalanced rotor at locations 1 and 2 denoted
as and are measured.

Next for a trial mass the same are noted. Let these be and

Finally, in the third run, for a trial mass one needs to obtain and

One can show that the balancing masses required are and
where,

where,

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Lecture 6: Field Balancing

A rotor operating at a speed higher than (or close to) its first critical speed is termed as a flexible rotor
since it undergoes a significant transverse deflection at this speed.

Unlike a rigid rotor, a flexible rotor cannot be balanced by adding two masses placed in two
arbitrarily chosen planes.

The principle used for balancing a flexible rotor is entirely different from that applied in the case
of a rigid rotor. The objective of attaching the balancing masses to a rigid rotor, as already
stated, is to neutralize the unbalanced forces and moments.

In a flexible rotor, on the other hand, the balancing masses are attached to suitably modify the
dynamic deflection characteristics of the rotor. The technique to do this is known as the modal
balancing technique .

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