Vibration Reduction Investigation of a Squeeze Film Damper With Valvular Metal Rubber Available to Purchase

A new-style squeeze film damper with valvular metal rubber squeeze film ring (SFD/VMR) was designed to improve characteristics of the squeeze film force of the SFD. The immobile squeeze film ring of the SFD was replaced by the elastic squeeze film ring with the valvular metal rubber subassembly (VMR). When the unbalance force was smaller, the displacement of the journal changed little, and then the squeeze film force was smaller too, so as to the squeeze film ring of the SFD/VMR was nearly immobile. The working condition was similar with the SFD. When the unbalance force was larger, the displacement of the journal changed bigger, and then the squeeze film force rapidly increased, so as to the VMR deformed, which made the film thickness changed correspondingly, until it reached a balanceable state of the squeeze film force and elastic force of the VMR. Theoretical and experimental investigations showed that the SFD/VMR had optimal effect on reducing vibration, comparing with the SFD, because it could passively adjust the squeeze film clearance by taking advantage of the elastic deformation of the VMR. The SFD/VMR could control the squeeze film clearance in a suitable range, which made the characteristics of the squeeze film force of the SFD/VMR better than the SFD. The SFD/VMR could suppress the occurrence of the nonlinear vibration phenomenon markedly, such as bistable jump up.