This report describes the results of a numerical simulation of a method to provide a riding comfort in a hydraulic elevator equipped with a variable displacement pump.
The equations of motion and fluid flow for the hydraulic system were derived first. The main components of the hydraulic elevator system were the hydraulic pump, line, check valve, accumulator, hydraulic cylinder and cage. In deriving the equations, consideration was given to hydraulic pump leakage, fluid compressibility and friction on the hydraulic cylinder packings. The digital simulation program was developed to compute the cage acceleration and deceleration of the elevator from start to stop, based on the Runge -Kutter method. The parameters in computing acceleration and deceleration were the resistance of the choke, which was built into the accumlator intake, the coefficient of fluid viscosity and the weight of the load placed in the cage. The effects of each were examined to yield the results given below.
(1) Despite the rectangular waveform of the pump's flow rate derivative, the use of the accumlator induced a time lag in the hydraulic system resulting in a trapezoidal acceleration-deceleration waveform con sidered ideal for elevator operation.
(2) Appropriate use of the accumlator's damping capacity allowed the absorption of the transient vibration of the cage.
(3) The resistance values of the accumlator intake's choke changed the elevator system's damping ratio. As a result optimum resistance value was achieved to obtain the maximum damping ratio.
(4) Bringing the damping ratio of the numerically simulated hydraulic elevator up to 0.4 or higher reduced the transient vibration in the first wave only.
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