| Introduction |
[1] |
| Review of Vibrations |
[3] |
| Modelling and Bending Critical Speeds of Rotors |
[2] |
| Whirling Phenomenon |
| Rigid rotors in rigid supports |
| Flexible rotors in rigid supports |
| Flexible rotors in flexible supports |
| Rolling Element Bearings |
[2] |
| Contact Forces |
| Deformations, Stiffness and Damping |
| Hydrodynamic Bearings |
[4] |
| Mechanism of Pressure Development in a Fluid Film |
| Reynold's Equation |
| Steady State Solution for Short Bearing |
| Dynamically loaded bearings and stiffness and damping coefficients |
| Squeeze Film Bearing |
| Squeeze Film Bearing and Orbital Motion |
| Matrix Methods |
[4] |
| Field and Point Matrices |
| Out of balance response of rotors with rigid end supports |
| Rotors with overhangs |
| Unbalance response by FEM |
| Torsional Vibration of Rotors |
[4] |
| Modelling and transfer matrix analysis for free vibrations |
| Variable Stiffness in Torsional Vibrations |
| Excitation torques and transient response |
| Branched and Geared Systems |
| Torsional vibrations in reciprocating machinery |
| Higher order effects and Stability |
[12] |
| Hill's Equation, Mathieu's Equation, Strutt Diagram |
| Routh Hurwitz criterion |
| Shafts with dissimilar moments of inertia |
| Effects of Gravity |
| Internal Hysteresis of Shafts |
| Rigid Rotor Instability |
| Instability of rotors mounted in fluid film bearings |
| Instability of flexible rotors |
| Instability due to negative cross-coupling |
| Instability in torsional vibrations |
| Gyroscopic Effects |
| Rotor Balancing |
[4] |
| Classification of Rotors |
| Rigid rotor balancing |
| Flexible rotor balancing |
| Monitoring and Diagnosis |
[4] |
| Faults in rotating machinery |
| Instrumentation and Data Acquisition |
| Time and Frequency domain characteristics |
| Knowledge base and expert systems |
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