ISO 14839-5:2022
(Main)Mechanical vibration — Vibration of rotating machinery equipped with active magnetic bearings — Part 5: Touch-down bearings
Mechanical vibration — Vibration of rotating machinery equipped with active magnetic bearings — Part 5: Touch-down bearings
This document gives guidelines for identifying: a) The typical architectures of touch-down bearing systems to show which components are likely to comprise such systems and which functions these components provide; NOTE Touch-down bearings are also known as “backup bearings”, “auxiliary bearings”, “catcher bearings” or “landing bearings”. Within this document, the term “touch-down bearings” is used exclusively as defined in ISO 14839‑1. b) The functional requirements for touch-down bearing systems so that clear performance targets can be set; c) Elements to be considered in the design of the dynamic system such that rotordynamic performance can be optimized, both for touch-down bearings and active magnetic bearings (AMBs); d) The environmental factors that have significant impact on touch-down bearing system performance allowing optimization of overall machine design; e) The AMB operational conditions that can give rise to contact within the touch-down bearing system so that such events can be considered as part of an overall machine design. It also considers failure modes within the AMB system that can give rise to a contact event. This ensures that the specification of the touch-down bearings covers all operational requirements; f) The most commonly encountered touch-down bearing failure modes and typical mechanisms for managing these events; g) Typical elements of a design process for touch-down bearing systems including the specification of load requirements, the sizing process, the analytical and simulation methods employed for design validation; h) The parameters to be taken into account when designing a touch-down bearing system acceptance test programme including the test conditions to be specified and the associated instrumentation to be used to ensure successful test execution; i) The condition monitoring and inspection methods that allow the status of in-service touch-down bearings to be evaluated and when necessary identifying the corrective actions to be taken; j) The factors to be considered when designing the maintenance regime for a touch-down bearing system including the actions to be taken after specified events have occurred together with any actions to be performed on a regular basis; k) The factors to be considered regarding other life cycle topics (e.g. obsolescence management, de-commissioning and disposal).
Vibrations mécaniques — Vibrations de machines rotatives équipées de paliers magnétiques actifs — Partie 5: Paliers d'arrêt
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INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 14839-5
First edition
2022-08
Mechanical vibration — Vibration of
rotating machinery equipped with
active magnetic bearings —
Part 5:
Touch-down bearings
Vibrations mécaniques — Vibrations de machines rotatives équipées
de paliers magnétiques actifs —
Partie 5: Paliers d'arrêt
Reference number
ISO 14839-5:2022(E)
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Contents Page
Foreword .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 2
3 Terms and definitions . 2
4 General structure and components .2
5 Functional targets . 4
5.1 General . 4
5.2 Design life . . 6
5.3 Clearance requirements . 6
5.4 Life-cycle requirements . 6
6 Touch-down bearing design considerations . 7
6.1 General . 7
6.2 Trigger events . 7
6.2.1 Overload due to abnormal process conditions . 7
6.2.2 AMB control instability . 8
6.2.3 Loss of power . 9
6.2.4 Failure in the AMB system . 10
6.2.5 Misoperation . 10
6.3 Transportation duty . 10
6.3.1 General . 10
6.3.2 AMBs without permanent magnets . . 11
6.3.3 AMBs with permanent magnets . 11
6.4 Failure modes . 12
6.4.1 General .12
6.4.2 Rolling element failure modes .12
6.4.3 Sliding bearing failure modes . 13
6.5 Environmental factors . 13
6.5.1 General .13
6.5.2 Corrosion resistance .13
6.5.3 Erosion resistance, particulate contamination . 14
6.5.4 Liquid contamination . 14
6.5.5 Operating temperature . 14
6.5.6 Available cooling flow . 14
6.6 Rotordynamic modelling considerations . 14
6.6.1 General . 14
6.6.2 Rotor and housing modelling requirements . 14
6.6.3 Touch-down bearing soft mount design considerations . . 16
6.6.4 Touch-down bearing clearance design considerations . 16
6.6.5 Friction between the rotor and touch-down bearing design considerations . 16
6.7 Contact classification/severity . 17
6.7.1 Contact duration . 17
6.7.2 Types of motion . 17
6.8 Control actions following touch-down bearing contact . 19
6.8.1 General . 19
6.8.2 AMB controller action . 19
6.8.3 Plant/variable-frequency drive control actions . 19
7 Design and design verification .19
7.1 General . 19
7.2 Design process details . 20
7.3 Documentation .30
8 Condition monitoring and damage estimation methods .30
8.1 General .30
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8.2 Event detection and data capture . 30
8.2.1 Contact detection . 30
8.2.2 Contact event .30
8.3 Inspection . 31
8.3.1 General . 31
8.3.2 Common techniques in non-intrusive inspection . 31
8.3.3 Intrusive inspection . 32
8.4 Damage estimation .34
8.4.1 Event data .34
8.4.2 Inspection-based estimation . 35
8.4.3 Criteria for further operation .36
9 Maintenance and life cycle factors.37
9.1 General . 37
9.2 Inspection plan . 37
9.2.1 General . 37
9.2.2 Minimum intervention cycle . 37
9.3 Interventions . 37
9.3.1 Routine checks . 37
9.3.2 Predicted excessive damage accumulation .38
9.3.3 Contamination .39
9.4 Maintenance actions . .39
9.4.1 General .39
9.4.2 Touch-down-bearing refurbishment .39
9.4.3 Touch-down bearing replacement .40
9.5 Life-cycle factors . . 41
9.5.1 General . 41
9.5.2 Spare part management . . . 41
9.5.3 Decommissioning, recycling and disposal . 42
9.5.4 Obsolescence management . 42
Bibliography .43
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Foreword
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 14839-5:2022(E)
Mechanical vibration — Vibration of rotating machinery
equipped with active magnetic bearings —
Part 5:
Touch-down bearings
1 Scope
This document gives guidelines for identifying:
a) The typical architectures of touch-down bearing systems to show which components are likely to
comprise such systems and which functions these components provide;
NOTE Touch-down bearings are also known as “backup bearings”, “auxiliary bearings”, “catcher
bearings” or “landing bearings”. Within this document, the term “touch-down bearings” is used exclusively
as defined in ISO 14839-1.
b) The functional requirements for touch-down bearing systems so that clear performance targets
can be set;
c) Elements to be considered in the design of the dynamic system such that rotordynamic performance
can be optimized, both for touch-down bearings and active magnetic bearings (AMBs);
d) The environmental factors that have significant impact on touch-down bearing system performance
allowing optimization of overall machine design;
e) The AMB operational conditions that can give rise to contact within the touch-down bearing
system so that such events can be considered as part of an overall machine design. It also considers
failure modes within the AMB system that can give rise to a contact event. This ensures that the
specification of the touch-down bearings covers all operational requirements;
f) The most commonly encountered touch-down bearing failure modes and typical mechanisms for
managing these events;
g) Typical elements of a design process for touch-down bearing systems including the specification of
load requirements, the sizing process, the analytical and simulation methods employed for design
validation;
h) The parameters to be taken into account when designing a touch-down bearing system acceptance
test programme including the test conditions to be specified and the associated instrumentation to
be used to ensure successful test execution;
i) The condition monitoring and inspection methods that allow the status of in-service touch-down
bearings to be evaluated and when necessary identifying the corrective actions to be taken;
j) The factors to be considered when designing the maintenance regime for a touch-down bearing
system including the actions to be taken after specified events have occurred together with any
actions to be performed on a regular basis;
k) The factors to be considered regarding other life cycle topics (e.g. obsolescence management, de-
commissioning and disposal).
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2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 2041, Mechanical vibration, shock and condition monitoring — Vocabulary
ISO 14839-1, Mechanical vibration — Vibration of rotating machinery equipped with active magnetic
bearings — Part 1: Vocabulary
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO 2041 and ISO 14839-1 apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at https:// www .iso .org/ obp
— IEC Electropedia: available at https:// www .electropedia .org/
4 General structure and components
Rotating machinery equipped with AMBs is typically also equipped with touch-down bearings. These
touch-down bearings are intended to support the rotor when the AMB system is not activated or during
a failure or overload of the AMB system. In these instances, the touch-down bearings are required to
support the rotor until either levitation is recovered or the rotor is brought to zero rotational speed
without damaging to other parts of the machine.
During normal operation of the machinery, the touch-down bearings have a clearance with the rotor
and consequently do not apply force. The clearance at the touch-down bearings is typically the closest
clearance within the rotating machine. This ensures in the event of a problem with the AMB, when the
rotor moves away from its normal “centred” operating position, the first item to make contact between
the rotor and stator is the touch-down bearing. Such an event occurring during rotation is referred to
as a “touch-down event”, “landing event”, “contact event” or “drop event”. Such events have historically
been categorized by some vendors as either “hard” landings, where a full de-levitation from high speed
occurs or “soft” landings where either a partial de-levitation or a momentary contact occurs.
Touch-down bearings are required to constrain rotor movement in the degrees of freedom normally
constrained by the AMB system. In the case of a rotor with two radial AMBs and one axial AMB, the
touch-down bearings are required to constrain the associated five axes of movement. This is typically
achieved by using:
a) two radial touch-down bearings with a separate axial touch-down bearing;
b) two radial touch-down bearings, each with a single acting thrust face; or
c) one radial touch-down bearing with a combined radial/axial touch-down bearing.
Touch-down bearings use a range of technologies, such as:
d) stator mounted rolling element bearings;
e) rotor mounted rolling element bearings;
f) dry lubricated plain bushings;
g) dry lubricated pad construction;
h) foil bearings;
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i) aero-static bearings;
j) fluid-film bearings; and
k) hybrids of technologies d) to j).
In most instances on large machines the touch-down bearing comprises of a rotor part (commonly
referred to as a landing sleeve) together with a stator part. The landing sleeve is intended to ensure that
no damage to the core shaft occurs on touch-down and typically is a replaceable item. An alternative
to the landing sleeve is to land directly on the shaft surface, which has a wear resistant coating or
treatment.
The stator part typically comprises a low-friction element, which contacts the landing surface and is
supported by a compliant element. The compliant element has an associated stiffness and damping
which is intended to improve vibration response during a touch-down event.
The compliant element can have these characteristics:
l) preload;
m) stiffness;
n) damping;
o) touch-down bearing hard-stop clearance.
When considering the minimum design clearance at any axial location, the total rotor motion at the
touch-down bearings, which includes the clearance and the touch-down bearing hard-stop clearance,
shall be considered together with other system stiffnesses and tolerances/concentricities. This is
discussed in Clause 6.
Schematic drawings of typical configurations are shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2.
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Key
1 core shaft 6 preload spring
2 touch-down bearing housing 7 radial clearance
3 rolling element bearing 8 axial clearance
4 compliant element 9 landing surfaces (or sleeve)
5 hard stop clearance
Figure 1 — A typical configuration for a rolling element touch-down bearing installation
For dry bush type radial touch-down bearings as depicted in Figure 2, the landing surface may be
either a cylindrical bush (which moves as a single entity) or by articulated pads which are able to
move independently of each other. In both cases the moving element(s) are supported by one or more
compliant elements which provide both stiffness and damping within the hard stop clearance. In the
case of the pad arrangement, the compliant elements also provide a defined pre-load force. In both
cases the material of the landing surface may be optionally bonded to a backing material with suitable
mechanical properties.
The condition of the touch-down bearings can be of utmost importance in case of an AMB failure. The
touch-down bearings shall be able to safely bear the rotor during an event such as momentary contact
or a full rundown to standstill. The stringent operational demands, such as high acceleration rates and
high forces, lead to a very limited number of such events being allowed, thus the touch-down bearings
are considered consumable parts. However, replacing touch-down bearings which have not yet reached
the end of their lifetime should be avoided. Therefore, condition monitoring of touch-down bearings is
essential.
5 Functional targets
5.1 General
This clause introduces the functional requirements for a touch-down bearing system that would
typically be communicated by a customer of such systems to the vendor. These requirements comprise
the conditions under which the touch-down bearing system shall operate, the limits to rotor excursion
that the touch-down bearing shall protect, and the lifetime that the touch-down bearing shall sustain.
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a) Radial bushing
b) Radial articulated pads c) Axial fixed pads
Key
1 core shaft 10 articulated pad (landing surface)
2 landing sleeve (optional) 11 rotor landing sleeve
3 air gap 12 pad stop
4 bush landing surface 13 compliant element with preload
5 bush backing material (optional) 14 rotor stator clearance
6 compliant element 15 fixed pad
7 touch-down bearing housing 16 pad backing material
8 hard stop clearance 17 pad landing surface
9 articulated pad (backing material) 18 fixing screw
Figure 2 — Typical configurations for dry bush touch-down bearings
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5.2 Design life
Touch-down bearing design life requirements shall be agreed between the customer and vendor prior
to project execution and specific requirements can vary depending on the application. The touch-down
bearing system shall be designed to handle a minimum number of contact events without requiring
replacement or refurbishment. The agreed upon minimum number of contact events shall consider
both transient contact events (momentary contacts) and sustained contact events (rundowns) and the
maximum time period over which this capacity shall be sustained (effective service life of the touch-
down bearing).
Additional factors that can affect touch-down bearing design life requirements include, but are not
limited to:
a) the likelihood of abnormal process conditions;
b) hazardous environmental risks;
c) availability of a braking system (for sustained shutdown events);
d) power grid reliability;
e) the availability of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) for backup power;
f) machine availability requirements (see 6.2).
It is important to recognize that the viability of the touch-down bea
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