Combined Explicit Finite and Discrete Element Methods for Rotor Bearing Dynamic Modeling

Tribology Transactions

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 300-315

  Brouwer, Matthew D ^a   Sadeghi, Farshid ^a   Ashtekar, Ankur ^b   Archer, Jamie ^b   Lancaster, Craig ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CUMMINS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Ball Bearings; Dynamic Modeling; Rotordynamics

Indexed keywords

BALL BEARINGS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DYNAMIC MODELS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MODAL ANALYSIS; ROTATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

COMPONENT MODE SYNTHESIS; ELASTIC FORMULATION; EXPLICIT FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLEXIBLE ROTOR SYSTEMS; ROTOR BEARING DYNAMICS; ROTOR-DYNAMICS; SUPPORTING BEARINGS; TRANSLATIONAL MOTIONS;

DEEP GROOVE BALL BEARINGS;

EID: 85032096265     PISSN: 10402004     EISSN: 1547397X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10402004.2014.968699     Document Type: Article

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