Modal Vibration Suppression for Magnetically Levitated Rotor Considering Significant Gyroscopic Effects and Interface Contact

Featured with optimal power consumption, active magnetic bearings (AMBs) have been extensively integrated into turbomachinery applications. For turbomachinery components, including the rotor and impeller, their connection is generally based on bolted joints, which would easily induce excessive interface contact. As a result, the pre-tightening torque can induce modal vibrations in the rotor upon levitation. Although a notch filter can be adopted to suppress the vibrations, it should be noted that the current reported notch filters are based on fixed center frequency, making it challenging to enable high effectiveness over a broad range of rotor speeds, particularly in cases where the gyroscopic effect is significant. Herein, a modal vibration suppression based on a varying-frequency notch filter is proposed, considering gyroscopic effect and interface contact. First, the rotor–AMB system was developed, taking into consideration the bolted-joint interface contact. This modeled the effect of the interface contact as a time-varying force in the positive feedback. Secondly, the relationship between vibration frequency and rotational speed was obtained, based on simulations. Lastly, a test rig was configured to validate the performance of the frequency-varying notch filter. The experimental data confirm that the filter is capable of attenuating the modal vibrations resulting from interface contact across all operational speeds.