Comparison of One-Unit Ball-Rod-Spring Balancer with Traditional Ball-Type Automatic Balancer

Abstract:

Ball-type automatic balancers have been applied successfully to suppress unbalance vibrations of a rotor. A traditional ball-type automatic balancer consists of several balls moving along a fixed circular orbit. A new type of balancer, the ball-rod-spring balancer, in which the ball may move in the radial direction as well as in circumferential direction, has been proposed. This study aims to compare the performance of the new type of balancer with the traditional ball-type auto-balancer.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 229-231)
• Pages: 395-399
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.229-231.395
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Ming Cheng Wang, Chung Jen Lu
• Keywords: Automatic Balancer, Rotational Vibration, Rotor, Stability, Unbalance

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