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Rotating Machinery Vibration 

This comprehensive reference/text covers the principles of rotating equipment vibration-treating computer model creation, vibration sources and types, and machine vibration data analysis. Rotating Machinery Vibration illustrates turbomachinery, vibration severity levels, condition monitoring, and rotor vibration cause detection.

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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. It provides comprehensive descriptions of vibration symptoms for rotor unbalance, dynamic instability, rotor-stator rubs, misalignment, loose parts, cracked shafts, and rub-induced thermal bows.

Contents in Rotating Machinery Vibration 

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PART 1: PRIMER ON ROTOR VIBRATION

1. Vibration Concepts and Methods

2. Lateral Rotor Vibration Analysis Models

3. Torsional Rotor Vibration Analysis Models

PART 2: ROTOR DYNAMIC ANALYSES

4. RDA Code for Lateral Rotor Vibration Analyses

5. Bearing and Seal Rotor Dynamics

6. Turbomachinery Impeller and Blade Effects

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PART 3: MONITORING AND DIAGNOSTICS

7. Rotor Vibration Measurement and Acquisition

8. Vibration Severity Guidelines

9. Signal Analysis and Identification of Vibration Causes

PART 4: TROUBLESHOOTING CASE STUDIES

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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