Morteza Daneshmand, Mehdi Tale Masouleh, Gholamreza Anbarjafari,
Volume 15, Issue 10 (1-2016)
Abstract
The sensitivity of the moving platform of parallel mechanisms to the uncertainties in the design and control stages is of paramount importance. The mechanism has to be designed such that the negative effect of the foregoing errors is minimized. The latter issue has encouraged many researchers to derive and propose relevant indices being responsible for outputting a metric representing the kinetostatic performance of parallel mechanisms. Most of such indices entail severe drawbacks in the sense of leading to physically inapplicable interpretation, which was considerably alleviated by the emergence of kinematic sensitivity. Nevertheless, none of the studies heretofore has investigated the influence of the uncertainties in the passive joints on the kinetostatic performance. In other words, the assumption has always been that the aforementioned errors are negligible. This paper proposes a novel formulation for the kinematic sensitivity index, which, apart from that of the active joints, takes the effect of the uncertainties in the passive joints into account, and brings about the advantage that the mechanism can be optimized and improved in terms of kinetostatic performance, together with the workspace. The formulation, for the sake of illustration and verification, is also applied to the 4-bar linkage and 3-RPR parallel mechanisms, as well as the Tripteron robot. The results of the implementation of the proposed kinematic sensitivity index, which takes the effect of the uncertainties in the passive joints into account, show that the values associated with the case-studies considered in this paper fall within the intervals 1-2.4, 0.1-0.9 and 0.6-2.2, respectively.
M. Maleki Varnoosfaderani, A. Dashti Rahmatabadi, A.a. Dehghan,
Volume 19, Issue 1 (1-2019)
Abstract
In recent years, due to the increase in the speed of rotary machineries, demands for enhanced lubrication and bearing design to overcome this challenge has increased. To satisfy these need, researchers have proposed additive contained lubricants such as Nano-lubricants and bearings with different designs such as noncircular lobed bearings. In this article, effects of preload and aspect ratio on static performance of noncircular lobed journal bearings of finite length lubricated with lubricant containing TiO2 Nano-particles for particle volume fraction of 0.01 are studied. Using finite element method, the steady-state film pressure is obtained by solving the modified Reynolds equation based on the Nano-lubricants and Couple Stress model theories. With the help of film pressure, attitude angle, friction coefficient, friction force, and side leakage of noncircular lobed journal bearings are obtained. The results show that using lubricants containing TiO2 Nano-particles can enhance the performance of static characteristics of two, three, and four lobed journal bearings. According to results, increase in preload and bearing length will increase load carrying capacity noncircular lobed bearings. Based on results, choosing proper design parameters can have great impact on static performance of noncircular lobed journal bearings.
A. Rasoolizadeh Shooroki , A. Dashti Rahmatabadi, M. Zare Mehrjardi,
Volume 19, Issue 10 (10-2019)
Abstract
Improvement of behavioral indicators of oil journal bearings has particular importance due to the increasing development of their application as support of rotary components in industrial machinery. Creation of regular roughness (texture) with various geometries on the inner surface of a bearing shell is one of the newest methods proposed by the lubrication researchers to enhance the performance of the hydrodynamic journal bearings. In this study, the comparison of the performance of circular bearings with variable cubic, cylindrical and ellipsoid textures of different depths arranged in a different zone of the shell has been evaluated. For this purpose, the governing Reynolds equation on hydrodynamic lubrication of oil journal bearing was modified considering the changes of the film thickness affected by the geometry and position of the textures. This equation was solved by finite element numerical method, applying the assumption of the Reynolds boundary condition for determining cavitation zone. After obtaining the lubricant pressure profile, the parameters of steady-state performance of the bearing with different texture types were calculated and compared together. Results indicate that the creation of textures with any geometry reduces the lubricant pressure and changes the parameters of the bearing performance. Also, the placement of textures in the maximum pressure area leads to significant changes in performance components while their positioning in the lubricant cavitation region has a weak effect on the bearing behavior. Further, the results show that the difference in characteristics of bearing performance with shallow textures is more considerable and with the increase of textures depth the effect of geometry form on the performance will be reduced.
