Campbell Diagram

In rotordynamical systems, the eigenfrequencies often depend on the rotation rates due to the induced gyroscopic effects or variable hydrodynamic conditions in fluid bearings. You can use a Campbell Diagram to illustrate this.

  1. From the File menu, select Open > Time history file to load an *.out file.
  2. From the File > Preferences panel, verify that Enable Unit Scaling is checked:
    Figure 1.


  3. Return to the Create Curves by File dialog, make the appropriate selections, and click Apply.

    A plot similar to this is displayed:

    Figure 2.


  4. From the Plot Browser, select all modes, right-click, and select Multiple Curves Math > Campbell Diagram.
    Figure 3.


    The following dialog is displayed:
    Figure 4.


  5. In the Engine Order List field, enter the intersection values with the eigenmodes for the order lines that you want to display. For example, 1-4. Half orders can also be entered. If you enter 1-4.5, the orders will be displayed as 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, and so on. If you enter 1-4, whole numbers only will be used.
  6. Under Note Position, defaults are set to position the notes Above Right, with an offset or 3.0000, and the notes will be minimized to display the blue icon instead of the note text, .
  7. Under Output, defaults are set to display the notes at the intersections as well as a summary table.
    Select ASCII CSV File and enter a file name and output location to output the information to a CSV file.
  8. Click OK after you've made your selections.
    The Campbell Diagram plot and the summary table are displayed. The summary table on the right displays the information for the modes you selected to display in the plot. The colors used correspond to the mode colors in the plot.
    Figure 5.


    Figure 6. CSV file example:


  9. All of the intersections are created and you can hover over the minimized notes to display the information for each.
    Figure 7.


  10. If you use RPM as the units for the x-axis, and then enter 1-4 in the Engine Order List field in the Campbell Diagram dialog, your results would look similar to this:
    Figure 8.


  11. If you do not select Enable Unit Scaling from the Options panel, when you select Campbell Diagram from the Multiple Curves Math menu, the following message is displayed:
    Figure 9.


    You must resolve the unit discrepancy in the the Campbell Diagram, as shown in the red box below. Note that this does not appear when you enable unit scaling.

    Figure 10.