Fault diagnosis of a rotor bearing system using response surface method

Dynamic analysis of a high-speed rotor bearing systems is challenged by their highly nonlinear and complex properties. Hence, an approximate response surface method (RSM) is utilized to analyze the effects of design and operating parameters on the vibration signature of a rotor-bearing system. This paper focuses on accurate performance prediction, which is essential to the design of high performance rotor bearing system. It considers distributed defects such as internal radial clearance and surface waviness of the bearing components. In the mathematical formulation the contacts between the rolling elements and the races are considered as nonlinear springs, whose stiffnesses are obtained by using Hertzian elastic contact deformation theory. The governing differential equations of motion are obtained by using Lagrange's equations. In terms of the feature that the nonlinear bearing forces act on the system, a reduction method and corresponding integration technique is used to increase the numerical stability and decrease computer time for system analysis. Parameters effects are analyzed together and its influence considered with DOE and Surface Response Methodology are used to predict dynamic response of a rotor-bearing system.