Method to mitigate bit induced vibrations by intentionally modifying mode shapes of drill strings by mass or stiffness changes

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9976405-B2
Application number	US-201314070130-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 1, 2013
Priority date	Nov 1, 2013
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

A method for reducing drill tubular vibrations includes: constructing a mathematical model the drill tubular having mass distribution, material stiffness and material damping; constructing an equation of motion of the drill tubular in one of a time domain and frequency domain; transforming the equation of motion into a modal domain equation of motion to provide a mode shape of the drill tubular at an eigenfrequency, the mode shape providing an amplitude at a position along the drill tubular; comparing the amplitude at the position along the drill tubular to a threshold amplitude value; modifying at least one of the mass distribution, material stiffness and material damping if the amplitude exceeds the threshold value; and iterating the above step until at least one of the amplitude of the latest mode shape at the position is less than or equal to the threshold amplitude value and a predetermined constraint limits the modifying.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for reducing vibrations in a drill tubular coupled to a drill bit configured to drill a borehole in a formation, the method comprising:
constructing a mathematical model of a system comprising the drill tubular, the mathematical model comprising mass distribution, material stiffness, and material damping;
constructing an equation of motion of the drill tubular in one of a time domain and frequency domain using the mathematical model and a force model of a force applied to the drill tubular while cutting the formation with the drill bit;
transforming the equation of motion describing motion of the drill tubular into a modal domain equation of motion to provide a mode shape of the drill tubular at an eigenfrequency, the mode shape providing an amplitude at a position along the drill tubular;
comparing the amplitude at the position along the drill tubular to a threshold amplitude value;
modifying at least one of the mass distribution, material stiffness, and material damping if the amplitude exceeds the threshold amplitude value;
iterating the steps of constructing a mathematical model, constructing an equation of motion, transforming the equation of motion, and modifying until at least one of (i) the amplitude of the latest mode shape at the position is less than or equal to the threshold amplitude value and (ii) a predetermined constraint limits the modifying; and
physically modifying the drill tubular to achieve the at least one of the mass distribution, material stiffness, and material damping used in an ending iteration;
wherein the equation of motion is of the form M{umlaut over (x)}+C{dot over (x)}+Kx=f where M is the mass matrix representing the mass of the drill tubular, K is the stiffness matrix representing the stiffness of the drill tubular, C is the damping matrix representing a damping response of the drill tubular, x is the vector of physical amplitudes of motion of the drill tubular and bottomhole assembly (BHA), and f is the vector of external excitation forces applied to the drill tubular;
wherein transforming comprises applying the transform x=Φq where Φ is the normalized mass modal matrix such that Φ T MΦ=I and q is the vector of modal amplitudes and the modal domain equation of motion is of the form I{umlaut over (q)}+D{dot over (q)}+Λq=Φ T f where I, D, and Λ are the normalized mass modal matrix, the modal damping matrix, and the spectral matrix containing eigenvalues of the system, respectively;
wherein the modal domain equation of motion for the i-th mode is described as:
{umlaut over (q)} i +2 D i ω 0,i {dot over (q)} i +ω 0,i 2 q i =φ bit,i f bit

where D i and ω 0,i are the modal damping factor and the angular eigenfrequency of the i-th mode, respectively, and the product φ bit,i f bit the bit force in the modal domain, and φ bit,i is the amplitude in the modal domain;
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2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the vibrations are at least one of torsional vibrations, axial vibrations, and lateral vibrations.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the system further comprises the drill tubular disposed in drilling fluid in the borehole.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the drill tubular comprises at least one of a bottomhole assembly (BHA) and a borehole wall interaction component configured to contact a wall of the borehole.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the force model comprises a borehole wall force model of a force imposed on the drill tubular due to an interaction between the drill tubular and a wall of the borehole.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the force model comprises a sum of forces imposed on the drill tubular, the sum of forces comprising a declining characteristic of aggressiveness with respect to rotational speed of the drill tubular.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the force model comprises a drill bit force model of a force applied to the drill bit while the drill bit is cutting the formation.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the drill bit force model comprises a declining characteristic of aggressiveness.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the force model comprises a declining characteristic of aggressiveness with respect to rotational speed of the drill tubular and modifying comprises changing a rotational speed of the drill bit in order to reduce the vibrations.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the drill tubular comprises a bottomhole assembly (BHA) having one or more downhole tools and modifying comprises placing in the BHA the one or more downhole tools to a new location.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined constraint is based on a spatial limitation of the drill tubular.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the effective damping criterion comprises at least one of an eigenfrequency, a deflection, a modal damping, and a force model.

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein modifying comprises changing the modal damping of the drill tubular.

14. The method according to claim 12 , wherein m

Assignees

• Hohl Andreas
• Tergeist Mathias
• Oueslati Hatem
• Herbig Christian
• Jain Jayesh J
• Reckmann Hanno
• Endres Lance A
• Baker Hughes A Ge Co Llc

Inventors

• Hohl Andreas
• Tergeist Mathias
• Oueslati Hatem
• Herbig Christian
• Jain Jayesh J
• Reckmann Hanno
• Endres Lance A

Classifications

• G06F30/17

  Mechanical parametric or variational design · CPC title

• E21B44/02 Primary

  Automatic control of the tool feed ({E21B44/005,} E21B44/10 take precedence) · CPC title

• G06F17/5086

  Physics · mapped topic

• E21B2200/20

  Computer models or simulations, e.g. for reservoirs under production, drill bits · CPC title