Rotating Machinery Vibration From Analysis to Troubleshooting
by Maurice Adams, Jr.

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. Presents case studies and troubleshooting techniques gleaned from the author’s extensive industrial experience!

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
• And more!

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.

Contents

1. Vibration Concepts and Methods
2. Lateral Rotor Vibration Analysis Models
3. Torsional Rotor Vibration Analysis Models
4. RDA Code for Lateral Rotor Vibration Analyses
5. Bearing and Seal Rotor Dynamics
6. Turbo-Machinery Impeller and Blade Effects
7. Rotor Vibration Measurement and Acquisition
8. Vibration Severity Guidelines
9. Signal Analysis and Identification of Vibration Causes
10. Rotor Unbalance and Critical Speed Case Studies
11. Self-Excited Rotor Vibration Case Studies
12. Additional Rotor Vibration Problem Cases and Topics

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