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- Title
Reliability-Based Design Optimization Applied to a Rotor Supported by Hydrodynamic Bearings.
- Authors
de Castro, Helio Fiori; de Paula, Eduardo Henrique; Visnadi, Laís Bittencourt
- Abstract
Rotating machines are an important part of industrial equipment. It is essential to improve their performance while reducing the manufacturing, operating, and maintenance costs. Ensuring their reliability is also crucial because a machine breakdown can result in significant costs and potential environmental and safety damage. Reliability-based optimization is an approach that aims to find an optimal and robust design that guarantees a machine's reliability. In this study, we focused on optimizing the shaft diameter and oil temperature of a rotor supported by hydrodynamic bearings. We considered the materials' elastic moduli, density, and bearing clearance as uncertain parameters. Our goal was to ensure 99% reliability regarding both the vibration amplitude and stability threshold. To model the machine, we used the finite element method and represented the bearings using stiffness and damping coefficients, considering the linear short bearing model. Due to the complexity of the model, we employed surrogate models to solve the reliability-based optimization problem. Our results showed that the optimization problem could be solved successfully using Kriging, polynomial chaos expansion, and polynomial chaos Kriging.
- Subjects
BEARINGS (Machinery); POLYNOMIAL chaos; FINITE element method; ENVIRONMENTAL degradation; INDUSTRIAL equipment; ROTOR dynamics; ROTORS
- Publication
Machines, 2024, Vol 12, Issue 4, p233
- ISSN
2075-1702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/machines12040233