Experiments on routes to chaos in ball bearings.pdfVIP

ARTICLE IN PRESS JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION Journal of Sound and Vibration 318 (2008) 549–564 /locate/jsvi Experiments on routes to chaos in ball bearings B. Mevela,, J.L. Guyaderb aS.N.R. Roulements, 1 rue des usines, F74010 Annecy, France bLaboratoire Vibrations-Acoustique, I.N.S.A. de Lyon, 20 Avenue A. Einstein, F69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France Received 28 May 2006; received in revised form 10 April 2008; accepted 10 April 2008 Handling Editor: M.P. Cartmell Available online 10 June 2008 Abstract The theoretical motion of a ball bearing has been studied in a previous paper. Using a control parameter, different routes to chaos were described. The aim of this paper is to study the experimental routes to chaos in a ball bearing and to confirm whether theoretical predictions of the phenomena are realistic. An experimental test bench has been used and a numerical procedure has been proposed for observing Poincare maps.´ As the control parameter varies the bearing clearly shows the appearance of instability in its motion. Two different routes to chaos are described as expected from the theory. The first route is related to the first resonant frequency of the bearing. I