Jorge González Salazar

University of La Frontera · Department of Mechanical Engineering

This work introduces a new sort of mechatronic hydrodynamic journal bearing for controlling vibrations in rotating machinery. This mechatronic design aims at improving an increasingly demanded bearing. The new mechatronic fluid pivot journal bearing is built upon a tilting pad journal bearing with a spherical pivot modified to inject pressurized oi...

This study aimed to develop a workstation to investigate robotic sanding processes of wooden parts. The applied methodology includes the conceptual design of the station, incorporating sensors for online measurement of process variables. The station is controlled by a computer that enables interaction with the robot, controlling the abrasive tool r...

Root cause and vibration analysis is applied to a veneer peeling lathe to increase its efficiency and reduce wood waste. Excessive veneer thickness variations, repetitive damage of machine component and high vibration levels of the lathe are identified as interrelated issues. A root cause analysis is conducted to finally select both design and oper...

The fundamental properties of an actively lubricated bearing (ALB) from a control viewpoint are investigated, i.e., the stability, controllability and observability. The ALB involves the addition of an oil injection system to the standard tilting-pad journal bearing (TPJB) to introduce constantly and/or actively high pressurized oil into the rotor-...

This is part I of a twofold paper series, of theoretical and experimental nature, presenting the design and implementation of model-based controllers meant for assisting the hybrid and developing the feedback-controlled lubrication regimes in active tilting-pad journal bearings (active TPJBs). In part I, the flexible rotor-active TPJB modelling is...

This is part II of a twofold paper series dealing with the design and implementation of model-based controllers meant for assisting the hybrid and developing the feedback-controlled lubrication regimes in active tilting pad journal bearings (active TPJBs). In both papers theoretical and experimental analyses are presented with focus on the reductio...

This paper presents the identified dynamic coefficients of a lightly loaded actively lubricated bearing under three lubrication regimes: passive, hybrid and feedback-controlled. The goal is to experimentally demonstrate the feasibility of modifying the bearing dynamic properties via active lubrication. Dominated by the latest two regimes, the beari...

Active tilting-pad journal bearings with radial oil injection combine good stability properties of conventional tilting-pad journal bearings with the capability of improving their dynamic properties even more by control techniques. The main contribution of this work is the experimental investigation of integral controllers for feedback-controlled l...

The feedback-controlled lubrication regime, based on a model-free designed proportional-derivative controller, is experimentally investigated in a flexible rotor mounted on an actively-lubricated tilting-pad journal bearing. With such a lubrication regime, both the resulting pressure distribution over the pads and hence the bearing dynamic properti...

Real option pricing problems in investment project evaluation are mostly solved by the simulation-based methods, the lattice methods and by the finite difference method (FDM). Only a few applications of the finite element method (FEM) to these problems have been reported in the literature; although it seems to be an alternative tool for pricing rea...

Vibration analysis in all types of industry is an integral part of modern predictive maintenance programmes and fault diagnosis systems for rotating machinery. The basic technique on which they are based is the classical Fourier Transform approach, FFT However, for machinery operating in non-stationary conditions, with variable load and/or speed, t...