2009 Spring Meeting & 5th Global Congress on Process Safety

(14c) Design Audits of Machinery - Rotor Dynamics

Author

Hunter Cloud - Presenter, BRG Machinery Consulting, LLC


Turbomachinery's overall reliability depends heavily on its underlying rotordynamic characteristics. This paper briefly reviews some of the important rotordynamic principles and phenomena. Case history examples are presented illustrating the influence of operating conditions on machinery vibration performance.