(Elsevier, 2019) Royo Silvestre, Isaac; Beato López, Juan Jesús; Castellano Aldave, Jesús Carlos; Gómez Polo, Cristina; Zientziak; Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics - INAMAT2; Ciencias
Active thrust magnetic bearings provide an axial force to balance the moving parts of machines. However, most devices produce null or unbalancing passive forces. Furthermore, reported designs usually feature very small axial and radial gaps. This paper presents a thrust actuator for wide axial gaps that produces both passive and active restoring axial forces. It features a long biconical rotor and a stator housing a single winding and two permanent magnets. Simulations are done using finite-element-analysis (FEA) and compared to magnetic circuit analysis and experimental results from a prototype with a diameter of 48 mm and 20 mm axial displacement.
