Rotor Vibration Analysis Program: MyROT

This chapter describes MyROT, a versatile software package for the rotor vibration analysis of rotating machinery. The calculation is based on a combination of beam elements according to finite element modeling , termed 1D-FEM, which is discretized by defining the mass, stiffness and damping matrices according to the actual geometry of the rotating shaft. These matrices are applied to calculations of natural frequencies, complex eigenvalues for stability analysis, unbalance vibration by frequency response analysis (FRA) and so on. Specifically, this chapter describes the theoretical background for formulation and presents outputs of typical rotor dynamic calculations in order to show how this program is convenient in analyzing rotordynamics. A trial version of the package is available at http://www.nda.ac.jp/cc/mech/member/osami.html. An input data manual and other documents related to the package may also be downloaded from the site.