The repulsive magnetic bearings using a superconductor. 1st report Performance of thrust bearings.

Differential Quadrature Method for the Analysis of Hydrodynamic Thrust Bearings

This paper presents the application of the method of generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) for the analysis of hydrodynamic thrust bearings. GDQ is a simple, efficient, high-order numerical technique and it uses the information on all grid points to approach the derivatives of the unknown function. The effectiveness of the solution technique is verified by comparing the GDQ computed results...

Magnetic Bearings

Active Magnetic Bearings (amb)

A magnetic bearing is a bearing which supports a load using magnetic levitation. Magnetic bearings support moving machinery without physical contact, for example, they can levitate a rotating shaft and permit relative motion without friction or wear. In active magnetic bearings (AMB) a stable equilibrium is achieved by means of one or more control loops. The use of control loop for maintaining ...

“Null-E” Magnetic Bearings

Using electromagnetic forces to suspend rotating objects (rotors) without mechanical contact is often an appealing technical solution. However, in real life magnetic suspensions have to satisfy many engineering performance requirements beyond the simple compensation for the rotor weight. These typically include adequate load capacity and stiffness, low rotational loss, low price, high reliabili...

Self–Sensing Magnetic Bearings Using Parameter Estimation

A signal processing technique is presented by which the position of a rotor supported in magnetic bearings may be deduced from the bearing current waveform. The bearing currents are presumed to be developed with a two state switching amplifier which produces a substantial high frequency switching ripple. This ripple is demodulated using a model reference parameter estimation technique which ext...