Estimating Rotor Unbalance and Misalignment from a Single Run-Down

Materials Science Forum

Volumn 440-441, Issue , 2003, Pages 229-236

  Lees, A W ^a   Sinha, J K ^b   Friswell, M I ^c  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fault Diagnosis; Misalignment; Turbo Machines; Unbalance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS; JOURNAL BEARINGS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROTORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBOMACHINERY; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

FAULT DIAGNOSIS; ROTOR UNBALANCE;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 0345358491     PISSN: 02555476     EISSN: 16629752     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.440-441.229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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