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In order to avoid the sudden failure of high-speed spindles in the actual machining process caused by an excessive temperature rise at the design stage, a three-dimensional (3D) finite element analysis (FEA) model was proposed to conduct transient thermal-structure interactive analysis of a high-speed spindle. The FEA model considered thermal contact resistance (TCR) at solid joints and bearing stiffness to improve the accuracy of traditional thermal models which ignored TCR. However, TCRs at solid joints and bearing stiffness were often ignored in traditional thermal models of high-speed spindles. This caused inaccuracies in traditional thermal models. The heat generation of the built-in motor was calculated based on the efficiency analysis method proposed by Bossmanns and Tu [1]. Based on the quasi-static mechanics analysis of rolling bearing, the heat generation and stiffness of bearings were calculated by applying the Newton-Raphson algorithm to improve the convergence. The Weierstrass-Mandelbrot (W-M) function, a function of fractal parameters, was used to characterize the rough surface morphology of bearing rings. The fractal parameters were identified by the structure function method and the measurement data of bearing ring’s surface morphology, and a contact mechanics model was developed to calculate the contact parameters used in the model of TCR. Then, a new predictive model for TCR was proposed based on M-T model. The above boundary conditions were applied to the FEA model, and thermal equilibrium experiments were conducted to validate the effectiveness of the model. The results showed that the FEA model was much more accurate than the traditional model which ignored TCRs at solid joints and bearing stiffness.
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Ma, C., Mei, X., Yang, J. et al. Thermal characteristics analysis and experimental study on the high-speed spindle system. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 79, 469–489 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-015-6821-z
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