Nonlinear Dynamics of Adaptive Gun Head Jet System of Fire-Fighting Monitor

Abstract

The working medium of the adaptive gun head jet system of fire-fighting monitor is generally water containing a little bit of air. During the operation, the pressure pulsation of the fluid will cause the fluctuation of the equivalent stiffness of the gas-liquid mixed fluid, so that the motion of the fluid in the jet system has obvious nonlinear characteristics. In this paper, the nonlinear dynamic model of the jet system is established. The analytical expressions of the nonlinear vibration response of the jet system are derived via the multi-scale method. The main resonance and combined resonance of the jet system are determined. The results show that the external excitation frequency is the dominant frequency of the main resonance response of the jet system, and the combined frequency between the natural frequency of each order and the equivalent stiffness fluctuation frequency of the fluid unit has a small effect on the main resonance, and the maximum amplitude is 0.2592mm; the dominant frequency of the combined resonance response of the jet system is the combined frequency between the natural frequency of each order and the equivalent stiffness fluctuation frequency of the fluid unit, the system amplitude in combined resonance is smaller than that in the main resonance, and the maximum amplitude is 0.002532mm; the main resonance and the combined resonance will adversely affect the dynamic characteristics of the jet system. This research can provide a theoretical basis for the dynamic optimization of the adaptive gun head jet system of the fire-fighting monitor.

Keywords

• Fire-fighting monitor
• adaptive gun head
• jet system
• nonlinear vibration
• dynamics