The application of shape memory alloys (SMA) has been showed as a promising alternative in the vibration control area mainly due to the shape memory and pseudoelastic phenomena which this alloys present. In addition, they show large recovery forces and damping capacity when compared to traditional materials. Despite a great number of papers dealing with SMA abilities applied to vibration control in structures, there are only a few reports about applications of SMA in rotordynamics. Hence, this work focuses basic aspects in the numerical application of SMA actuators for vibration control in rotating machines. In the first analysis of this work it is used a Jeffcott rotor with SMA sleeves placed into one of the bearings. It has been employed different sleeve thickness in the martensite and austenite states and the changes in terms of amplitude and frequency are compared. Furthermore, in the second analysis, two different rotating systems with two discs and SMA springs applied at one and both bearings are analyzed under different set-ups. The springs have been placed externally to bearings and the work temperature is set according to the requirement of vibration control. Moreover, it was used a computational code to represent the thermomechanical behavior of SMA springs as well as a numerical code based on Finite Element Method (FEM) to simulate the dynamic behavior of rotors. The results of the numerical analyses demonstrated the SMA are efficient in the vibration control of rotating systems due to accomplish great reductions in the displacement amplitudes, changes in the critical speeds, suppression of unwanted movements and control of precession orbit shape.
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