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The Gas Foil Bearing (GFB) is a promising and environmentally friendly technology allowing support of high-speed rotating machinery with low power loss and without oil or electronics. Unfortunately, GFBs provide limited damping, making an accurate prediction of the Onset Speed of Instability (OSI) critical. This has traditionally been assessed using linearised coefficients derived from the perturbed Reynolds Equation with compliance included implicitly. Recent work has, however, revealed significant discrepancies between OSIs predicted using these techniques and those observed from nonlinear analysis. In the present work, the perturbation method’s underlying assumption on the pressure field is investigated by including the hitherto neglected pressure–compliance dependency directly. This leads to an extended perturbation akin to that commonly applied to tilting pad bearings and is shown to predict OSIs with much better agreement to time integration results. The extended perturbation method is cumbersome, but serves to highlight the error introduced when applying the classical perturbation method—as developed for rigid bearings by J. W. Lund—to GFBs.
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von Osmanski, S., Larsen, J.S., Santos, I.F. (2019). The Classical Linearization Technique’s Validity for Compliant Bearings. In: Cavalca, K., Weber, H. (eds) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Rotor Dynamics – IFToMM. IFToMM 2018. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 60. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99262-4_13
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