Crankshaft Torsional Vibration Characteristics in a Vee-Type Six-Cylinder Diesel Engine

Engines have been designed to avoid low-harmonic-order resonant torsional vibration in a commonly-used engine speed range, but the authors have found that, in some engines, especially turbo-charged engines, a significant degree of a low-harmonic-order exciting torque acts on the crankshaft. In these engines, the amplitude of non-resonant low-harmonic-order torsional vibration is almost as large as that of the resonant one and the amplitude of non-resonant vibration can not be controlled by a damper. Accordingly, to investigate the characteristics of non-resonant low-harmonic-order torsional vibration is important. This paper describes the characteristics of non-resonant and resonant torsional vibration for a vee-type six-cylinder diesel engine.