Balancing of

Rotating Disks
Objectives

1. To learn how to perform

static (single plane)
balancing of a rotating
disk.

2. To learn how to perform

dynamic (two planes)
balancing.
 STATIC BALANCING

Find or perform static (single

plane) balancing of rotating
disk.
1- Graphical
2- Analytical vector method
 STATIC BALANCING Di
re
ro ction
tat
ion of

• M0: original unbalance 80o

Mo
mass MT

• MT: Trial unbalance mass

• MC: Correction mass
Mc
• V0: velocity of unbalance
due to original unbalance Trial 1
mass M0 Di
re
ro ction
tat
ion of
• 0: phase angle of V0
• V1: velocity of unbalance Mo
due to trial unbalance 80o
mass MT
• 1: phase angle of V1 Mc MT

Trial 2
 Graphical method

+ Always positive in
this direction

VT

V1
T

T
V0
1
0
Ref.

𝑉0
𝑀 𝑐= ∗ 𝑀𝑇
𝑉𝑇
 Analytical method

2 2 2
𝑉 𝑇 =𝑉 0 +𝑉 1 − 2𝑉 0 𝑉 1 𝐶𝑜𝑠 ( 𝛼0 − 𝛼1 )
( )
2 2 2
−1 𝑉 0 +𝑉 𝑇 − 𝑉 1
𝛼 𝑇 =𝐶𝑜 𝑠
2𝑉 𝑇 𝑉 0
𝑉0
𝑐= ∗ 𝑀𝑇
𝑉𝑇
DYNAMIC
BALANCING or
MULTI-PLANE
BALANCING
V10 velocity in Plane-1 with no trial mass
(initial unbalance), Table-1: Dynamic balancing of two plane demo machine
V20 velocity in Plane-2 with no trial mass Plane-1 Plane-2
(initial unbalance),
V11 velocity in Plane-1 with trial mass in Runs Velocity, A Phase, P Velocity, A Phase, P
Plane-1, (mm/s) (deg) (mm/s) (deg)

V21 velocity in Plane-2 with trial mass in

Plane-1,
V12 velocity in Plane-1 with trial mass in 1. No trial mass V10 10 V20 20
Plane-2, and
V22 velocity in Plane-2 with trial mass in
2. Trial mass on V11 11 V21 21
Plane-2. Plane-1

3. Trial mass on V12 12 V22 22

Plane-2
MATLAB code for dynamic balancing