Method for testing rotors

• US 8,261,616 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2007
• Issued: 09/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Lüneburg, Bernd
• Primary Examiner(s): Saint Surin, J M
• Application Number:
  US12/309,545
• Publication Number:
  US 20100089136A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,905 Days
• Field of Search: 731/120.1, 738/621.91, 738/14, 738/47, 736/60, 736/62, 702/56, 318/696
• US Class Current: 73/660
• CPC Class Codes: G01H 1/006 of the rotor of turbo machines

Abstract

A method for testing rotors is disclosed, wherein a rotor to be tested is coupled in a torque-transmitting manner to an activating motor and is set in rotation. Vibrations of the rotor to be tested are measured, wherein the activating motor is operated such that torsional excitations are generated in the rotor.

Claims

1. A method for testing rotors, comprising:

coupling a rotor to be tested in a torque-transmitting manner to an electric activating motor;

setting the rotor in rotation by the activating motor;

operating the activating motor such that torsional excitations are generated in the rotor; and

measuring vibrations of the rotor,

wherein a transmitted torque has a first component which is constant with respect to time and a second component which is variable with respect to time,

wherein the first component is achieved with an electric drive motor and the second component is achieved with the activating motor.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the component which is variable with respect to time is a harmonic function.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the component which is variable with respect to time exhibits an amplitude.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the activating motor transmits the torque to the rotor according to the following equation:

M(t)=M0+MA×

sin(ω

(t)×

t), wherein

M0=Torque which is constant with respect to time,

MA=Amplitude of the component which is variable with respect to time,

ω

(t)=Frequency which is variable with respect to time.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the frequency ω

(t) is varied from a starting value to a target value at a fixed rotational speed of the rotor and the amplitude MA remains constant.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the amplitude MA is varied and the frequency ω

(t) is again varied from a starting value to a target value.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein blades are arranged on the rotor and vibrations of the blades are measured.

8. A measuring arrangement to measure vibrations of a rotatably mounted rotor, wherein the measuring arrangement comprises:

an electric drive motor and an electric activating motor,

wherein torque transmitted from the activating motor to a rotor has a component which is variable with respect to time, and

wherein torque transmitted from the drive motor has a component which is constant with respect to time.

9. The arrangement as claimed in claim 8, wherein the component which is variable with respect to time is a harmonic function.

10. The arrangement as claimed in claim 8, wherein the torque is transmitted according to the following equation:

M(t)=M0+MA×

sin(ω

(t)×

t), wherein

M0=Torque which is constant with respect to time,

MA=Amplitude of the component which is variable with respect to time,

ω

(t)=Frequency which is variable with respect to time.

11. The arrangement as claimed in claim 8, wherein the frequency ω

(t) varies from a starting value to a target value at a fixed rotational speed of the rotor.

12. The arrangement as claimed in claim 8, wherein the amplitude MA varies.