Magnetic bearing is considered for the usage in various industries. This paper investigates vibration of the rotating shaft supported passively by a repulsive-type magnetic bearing. The permanent magnet on the market not only has strong nonlinear force characteristics, but also may have a few percents of non-uniform magnetization characteristics. Also nonlinear force characteristics change as axial displacement of the shaft. Restoring force of a repulsive-type magnetic bearing is evaluated numerically considering the effects of both the axial displacement of the shaft and the magnetical anisotropicities of the inner and outer magnets. The occurrences of not only the linear and nonlinear parametric characteristics, but also the excitational forces for each pattern of magnetical anisotropicities are observed and they are evaluated in terms of the axial displacement. Furthermore, the influence of each magnetical anisotropicity pattern on the occurrences of various resonance phenomena is clarified.

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