A MOTOR PRIMER - PART 5 Copyright Material IEEE Paper No. PCIC 2005-9 Bryan Oakes Gary Donner Senior Member, IEEE Fellow, IEEE Rockwell Automation Shell Oil Products US 101 Reliance Road 2101 E Pacific Coast Hwy Kings Mountain, NC 28086 Wilmington, CA 90748 USA USA
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[email protected] [email protected] Abstract - In recent years much has been written II. WHAT PURPOSE DOES PERFORMING A about motors concerning efficiencies, vibration TORSIONAL ANALYSIS SERVE AND WHEN IS and resonance conditions as they relate to the IT REQUIRED? WHAT OCCURS DURING A American Petroleum Institutes (API) Standard TORSIONAL RESONANT CONDITION? 541 and motor diagnostics. Most of these papers and articles assume that the reader has Torsional vibration is an oscillatory twisting of significant knowledge of motor theory and the shaft. A motor by design applies a torsional operation. However, this assumption is overly force to the driven equipment and the driven optimistic, considering that only a few colleges equipment applies an equal and opposite force teach motor theory today and that application back to the motor. The shaft system deflects in experience at motor user locations has been torsion or twists away from the free position. At reduced in recent years. free vibration, and at its natural frequencies, the twist is free to unwind, twisting back to the free Index Terms – AC Induction Motors, position and, if undamped, twist an equal amount Efficiency, Torsional, Lateral Critical Speed, in the opposite direction.