Rotating Machinery Vibration: From Analysis to Troubleshooting (With Diskette) (Mechanical Engineering)

This comprehensivereference/text provides a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of rotating machinery vibration-treating computer model building, sources and types of vibration, and machine vibration signal analysis. Illustrating turbomachinery, vibration severity levels, condition monitoring, and rotor vibration cause identification, Rotating Machinery Vibration · Provides a primer on vibration fundamentals · Highlights calculation of rotor unbalance response and rotor self-excited vibration · Demonstrates calculation of rotor balancing weights · Furnishes PC codes for lateral rotor vibration analyses · Treats bearing, seal, impeller, and blade effects on rotor vibration · Describes modes, excitation, and stability of computer models · Includes extensive PC data coefficient files on bearing dynamics Providing comprehensive descriptions of vibration symptoms for rotor unbalance, dynamic instability, rotor-stator rubs, misalignment, loose parts, cracked shafts, and rub-induced thermal bows, Rotating Machinery Vibration is an essential reference for mechanical, chemical, design, manufacturing, materials, aerospace, and reliability engineers; and specialists in vibration, rotating machinery, and turbomachinery; and an ideal text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.