Advanced Rotordynamic Technology and Case Histories In the Rotating Machinery Industry
October 21-25, 2013
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3.2 CEUs are offered for successful completion of the course.
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Lectures Start
Monday, October 21, 2013, at 9:00 am and end on Friday, October 25, 2013, at 12 noon
Lectures and Notes
Most of the lectures have been prepared by Paul Allaire and Tim Dimond in the form of a future textbook. These notes are very detailed and the same ones used for lectures in the rotordynamics and bearings courses taught at the University of Virginia by Prof. Allaire and Dr. Dimond in recent years, to ROMAC graduate students, as well as some new material in the same form. Unlike many industrial seminars (short courses) taught by other lecturers who use Power Point slide that leave views wondering what steps were followed in going from one slide to the next, these notes read just like a textbook when readers go back to them 6 months or years later. Full copies of all of these notes will be provides to the attendees in electronic form. Some other lecturers will be delivered in Power Point or equivalent form but all of those talks will also be provided to the attendees in electronic form. The lectures in electronic form can be viewed on attendees personal computers during the seminar lectures. In the lectures, the mathematics behind the rotordynamics calculations will not be emphasized in the lectures and will only be summarized. Generally the mathematics behind the case histories will not be discussed at all. However, for those interested in the mathematical background, the equations are included in the notes.
Rotordynamic Topics
- Introduction – Jeffcott Rotor
- Example Rotors
- Compressors
- Steam Turbines
- Motors and Generators
- Pumps
- Gas Turbines
- Blowers
- Critical Speed Maps
- Campbell Diagrams
- Mode Shapes
- Undamped
- Damped
- Rotor Stability
- Instability Mechanisms
- Machine Fixes
- Rotor Unbalance
- Unbalance Response
- Rotor Balancing
Fluid Film Bearings
- Introduction to Bearings and Lubrication
- Fixed Pad Bearings
- Plain Journal
- Multilobe, Offset Half, Pressure Dam
- Advances in Load Capacity, Power Loss and Cooling
- Tilting Pad Bearings
- Basic Design, Advances in Load Capacity, Power Loss and Cooling
- Squeeze Film Dampers
- Stiffness and Damping Properties
- Damping Effects in Rotor Systems