SELF-ALIGNING CENTRIFUGAL SUPPORTS

S. M. Arinkin,a L. P. Panasenko,b
and E. V. Papoka

UDC 621.671.0015532.5.539.4

A brief review of the basic types of rotation-type supports 
has been given. The structures of self-aligning gasdynamic and hydrodynamic 
centrifugal supports have been described. A comparative computational 
analysis of their efficiency has been made; the advantage of the hydraulic 
support in realizing large-tonnage processes has been shown on the 
basis of the analysis.

Keywords: high-speed rotary systems, centrifugal supports, 
hydraulic suspensions, gasdynamic bearings, self-balancing of centrifugal 
supports, damping of vibrations.

aA. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy 
of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus; email: 
office@hmti.ac.by; bMinsk State Higher Aviation College, 77 Uborevich Str., 
Minsk, 220096, Belarus; email: college@avia.mtk.by. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 59-64, 
January-February, 2009. Original article submitted November 22, 2007; 
revision submitted March 30, 2008.