By: Donald E. Bently with Charles T. Hatch. Edited by: Bob Grissom\ OVERVIEW\ A practical course in the fundamentals of machinery diagnostics for anyone who works with rotating machinery, from operator to manager, from design engineer to machinery diagnostician.\ This comprehensive book thoroughly explains and demystifies important concepts needed for effective machinery malfunction diagnosis:\ (A) Vibration fundamentals: vibration, phase, and vibration vectors.\ (B) Data plots:...
\ \ \ Acknowledgments\ \ \ \ \ Foreword\ \ \ \ \ Introduction\ \ \ \ 1\ Vibration\ 3\ \ \ 2\ Phase\ 21\ \ \ 3\ Vibration Vectors\ 33\ \ \ 4\ Timebase Plots\ 51\ \ \ 5\ The Orbit\ 69\ \ \ 6\ Average Shaft Centerline Plots\ 97\ \ \ 7\ Polar, Bode, and APHT Plots\ 111\ \ \ 8\ Half and Full Spectrum Plots\ 131\ \ \ 9\ Trend and XY Plots\ 155\ \ \ 10\ The Rotor System Model\ 165\ \ \ 11\ Dynamic Stiffness and Rotor Behavior\ 209\ \ \ 12\ Modes of Vibration\ 227\ \ \ 13\ Anisotropic Stiffness\ 249\ \ \ 14\ Rotor Stability Analysis: The Root Locus\ 273\ \ \ 15\ Torsional and Axial Vibration\ 315\ \ \ 16\ Basic Balancing of Rotor Systems\ 337\ \ \ 17\ Introduction to Malfunctions\ 385\ \ \ 18\ Unbalance\ 391\ \ \ 19\ Rotor Bow\ 409\ \ \ 20\ High Radial Loads and Misalignment\ 429\ \ \ 21\ Rub and Looseness\ 449\ \ \ 22\ Fluid-Induced Instability\ 475\ \ \ 23\ Externally Pressurized Bearing and Machinery Diagnostics\ 499\ \ \ 24\ Shaft Cracks\ 517\ \ \ 25\ High Vibration in a Syngas Compressor Train\ 537\ \ \ 26\ Chronic High Vibration in a Draft Fan\ 549\ \ \ 27\ A Generator Vibration Puzzle\ 559\ \ \ 28\ High Vibration in an Electric Motor\ 569\ \ \ 29\ Problems with a Pipeline Compressor\ 579\ \ \ App. A1\ Phase Measurement Conventions\ 599\ \ \ App. A2\ Filtered Orbit and Timebase Synthesis\ 607\ \ \ App. A3\ The Origin of the Tangential Stiffness Term\ 615\ \ \ App. A4\ SAF Calculation\ 621\ \ \ App. A5\ Vector Transforms\ 629\ \ \ App. A6\ Eigenvalues of the Rotor Model\ 639\ \ \ App. A7\ Units of Measurement\ 647\ \ \ App. A8\ Nomenclature\ 655\ \ \ \ Glossary\ 661\ \ \ \ Index\ 709\ \ \ \ About the Authors\ 723\ \ \ \ About Bently Nevada\ 725\ \