Analysis of vibration characteristics of stators of electrical machines under actual boundary

Abstract

This paper presents a general method for the studies of the vibration characteristics of an electrical machine stator with encased construction under practical boundary conditions. In this paper, artificial springs are introduced at both ends of the stator, and arbitrary boundary conditions can be simulated by adjusting the spring stiffness, including the support conditions in practical applications of the stator. In order to cooperate with the solution of the vibration characteristics of the stator with arbitrary edges, the Gram-Schmidt method is employed to construct characteristic orthogonal polynomial series to simulate the mode shape functions under arbitrary boundary conditions. The analysis is based on the Novozhilov shell theory, which is more applicable to the construction and actual operating environment of stators of electric vehicle drive motors, and takes into account moment of inertia neglected in the past. Further, the effects of teeth, windings, frame and cooling ribs are incorporated in the analysis, and the teeth with complicated shapes are considered as longitudinal ribs of unlimited cross-section, with bending and torsional coupling motion and warping deformation considered. The Rayleigh-Ritz method is used to build a unified dynamic analysis model of the stator of an electric machine, which can provide information on the radial, circumferential and axial vibrations of the stator with higher time efficiency, and a series of comparison studies and experiments are performed to demonstrate the general validity and accuracy of the model. On this basis, the possibility of construction optimization of the stator is discussed to improve the vibration and noise performance while reducing the cost.