Abstract

The article describes a study on the behaviour of a vertical-axis washing machine's hydraulic balancer, which is a critical component that helps to balance the load during the spinning phase of the washing cycle. The balancer is a hollow plastic ring filled with salt water and rotating with the basket, and it helps to position the fluid volume to the side opposite the imbalance.

The study was conducted by SPM, a company that specializes in dynamic analysis, to confirm a hypothesis that the flexibility of the tub was causing the imbalance and to validate a proposed modification to stiffen the structure. The company used a particle-based CFD methodology and a multibody solver to simulate the behaviour of the hydraulic balancer and the oscillating group.

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