Research Article

Effects of the Hot Alignment of a Power Unit on Oil-Whip Instability Phenomena

Table 3

First five flexural critical speeds and dimensionless modal damping factors of the machine-train evaluated at 3000 rpm by means of the models no. 1, no. 2, and no. 3.

Model no. 1Model no. 2Model no. 3
Flexural critical speedDamping factorFlexural critical speedDamping factorFlexural critical speedDamping factor
No.(rpm)dimensionless(rpm)dimensionless(rpm)dimensionless

1842.90.01185856.10.00886798.4 0.00777
2993.80.02088993.30.02044963.20.03806
31033.40.028561032.70.029011007.50.03301
41082.40.008561078.00.011301043.70.02681
52059.90.061892105.30.054991938.20.03850