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Item Diagnostics of subsynchronous vibrations in rotating machinery - methodologies to identify potential instability(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01) Kar, RahulRotordynamic instability can be disastrous for the operation of high speed turbomachinery in the industry. Most ??instabilities?? are due to de-stabilizing cross coupled forces from variable fluid dynamic pressure around a rotor component, acting in the direction of the forward whirl and causing subsynchronous orbiting of the rotor. However, all subsynchronous whirling is not unstable and methods to diagnose the potentially unstable kind are critical to the health of the rotor-bearing system. The objective of this thesis is to explore means of diagnosing whether subsynchronous vibrations are benign or have the potential to become unstable. Several methods will be detailed to draw lines of demarcation between the two. Considerable focus of the research has been on subharmonic vibrations induced from non-linear bearing stiffness and the study of vibration signals typical to such cases. An analytical model of a short-rigid rotor with stiffness non-linearity is used for numerical simulations and the results are verified with actual experiments. Orbits filtered at the subsynchronous frequency are shown as a diagnostic tool to indicate benign vibrations as well as ??frequency tracking?? and agreement of the frequency with known eigenvalues. Several test rigs are utilized to practically demonstrate the above conclusions. A remarkable finding has been the possibility of diagnosing instability using the synchronous phase angle. The synchronous phase angle ?? is the angle by which the unbalance vector leads the vibration vector. Experiments have proved that ?? changes appreciably when there is a de-stabilizing cross coupled force acting on the rotor as compared to when there is none. A special technique to calculate the change in ?? with cross-coupling is outlined along with empirical results to exemplify the case. Subsequently, a correlation between the synchronous phase angle and the phase angle measured with most industrial balancing instruments is derived so that the actual measurement of the true phase angle is not a necessity for diagnosis. Requirements of advanced signal analysis techniques have led to the development of an extremely powerful rotordynamic measurement teststand ?? ??LVTRC??. The software was developed in tandem with this thesis project. It is a stand-alone application that can be used for field measurements and analysis by turbomachinery companies.Item Synthesis of controllers for non-minimum phase and unstable systems using non-sequential MIMO quantitative feedback theory(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29) Lan, ChenyangConsidered in this thesis is multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems with non-minimum phase (NMP) zeros and unstable poles where some of the unstable poles are located to the right of the NMP zeros. In the single-input single-output (SISO) case such systems pose serious difficulties in controller synthesis for performance and stability. In spite of the added degrees of freedom the MIMO case also poses difficulties as has been shown in the stabilization of the X-29 aircraft. When using the MIMO QFT technique the synthesis starts by considering a set of equivalent SISO plants derived from the plant transfer function matrix that are used to develop a controller. In effect the design problem is reduced to several MISO designs with the diagonal entries of as the equivalent SISO plants. Developed is a transformation scheme that can be used to condition the resulting equivalent SISO plants so that the difficult problem of NMP zeros lying to the left of unstable poles is avoided. Examples illustrate the use of the proposed transformation.