A total understanding of rotating machinery vibration analysis requires evaluation of critical speed placement, forced response sensitivity to imbalance, linear onset of instability prediction and full non-linear response analysis. Of these four areas of analysis, only the first three are applied as a basic design tool in modern turbo-machinery analysis. The prediction of multi-mass flexible rotor steady-state elliptic orbit response, including bearing damping and support flexibility, has been and remains in this author’s opinion, to be the basic workhorse and keystone of machinery design. This has now been true for over 35 years. The person responsible for developing this basic method of analysis has been a longtime friend of many engineers worldwide. This paper is written to acknowledge this contribution, one of many in fact, made by Jørgen W. Lund and is presented in memory of his life’s work at this occasion of honoring his contributions to our profession. A short section on the methods and understanding gained from the basic analysis will be presented. Finally, some personal reflections will be given concerning Jørgen Lund.
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Lund’s Elliptic Orbit Forced Response Analysis: The Keystone of Modern Rotating Machinery Analysis
R. Gordon Kirk, Professor,
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Contributed by the Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound for publication in the Jørgen Lund Special Issue of the JOURNAL OF VIBRATION AND ACOUSTICS. Manuscript received June 2003. Associate Editor: L. A. Bergman.
J. Vib. Acoust. Oct 2003, 125(4): 455-461 (7 pages)
Published Online: October 8, 2003
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Kirk, R. G. (October 8, 2003). "Lund’s Elliptic Orbit Forced Response Analysis: The Keystone of Modern Rotating Machinery Analysis ." ASME. J. Vib. Acoust. October 2003; 125(4): 455–461. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1605977
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