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take place. In the original system, with the increases of the rotating speed, the
synchronous motion again occurs in the speed range 5,460–6,240rpm, after rotating
speed 6,240 rpm more complex nonlinear dynamic behaviors begin evolvement as
shown in Figs. 22.3aand22.4a. It is delightful that the dynamic phenomena of re-
duced order system obtained via the PCGM are coincident with those of the original
system (Figs. 22.3band22.4b). However, the reduced order system obtained via the
SGM can not reproduce the actual nonlinear dynamic phenomena of original system
(Figs. 22.3cand22.4c) after the fist bifurcation point in the original system. In order
to achieve the accurate results, more modes should be included for the SGM.
22.5 Conclusions
A 32-DOF nonlinear dynamic model has been established for the two-span rotor-
bearing system. A lower order subsystem with 6-DOF has been taken as the master
subsystem. The master subsystem associated with the slave subsystem which also
has 6-DOF has been numerically solved using the predictor-corrector Galerkin
method proposed in [17]. It has been shown that the PCGM provided a considerable
increase in accuracy for a little computational cost in comparison with the SGM in
which the first six modes were reserved. The numerical results indicated that the in-
fluence of some higher modes should be taken into account. The PCGM can achieve
the request accuracy and reduce the order of the large-scale nonlinear dynamical
system without losing essential dynamical behaviors of the original system.
Acknowledgments This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation
of China (10772056, 10632040) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hei-Long-Jiang Province,
China (ZJG0704).
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