Alignment + Balancing
Four Ways Soft Foot Affects Machinery
Soft foot is a condition that occurs when rotating machinery is positioned incorrectly ─ specifically, when one or more of the “feet” of a machine’s base, frame, or soleplate are not making the same point contact as the others...
How to Cut Your Time in Measuring For Misalignment Issues
PRUFTECHNIK sensALIGN technology upgrades ancient angularity and offset measurement practices..
Verification & Validation
Three different rotor kits with particular balancing equipment will be considered here...
- Jose Mendez Adriani
- Central University of Venezuela
What is Soft Foot and Why Should We Care About It?
Soft foot occurs when rotating machinery is positioned in place on its base, frame, or soleplate, and one or more of the “feet” are not making good contact...
- Frederic Baudart
- Fluke
General Computer Program for Two-Plane Balancing of Rigid Rotors
This technical article develops a universal computer program for the two-plane balance of rigid rotors, by means of a unified treatment of the system and the convention for the phase measurement, which can be used by any general balancing equipment...
- Jose Mendez Adriani
- Central University of Venezuela
Representing Your Data
Before we can represent the data, we need to ensure that we capture appropriate data. The data that we need is amplitude at a particular frequency...
- Dennis Swanepoel
- WearCheck
How to Choose A Capped Bearing
In this Five Minute Fact, we will discuss how a capped bearing differs from an open bearing. Capped bearings do not have a visible opening so why choose them?..
- Akhil jeet Rathore
- Indorama Petrochemicals & Fertilizers
Procedure To Detect Misalignment Between Internal Combustion Engines and Gas Compressors with FFT
Practical procedure to detect misalignment conditions in packages to gas compression stations...
- Jose Luis Rattia
- RECIP & ROTATING SERVICES CA
Torsional Issues: Stop Guessing and Measure the Problems Directly
Failure mechanisms such as misalignment, balance, or lubrication issues can cause machinery failure. Many of these problems can be identified using standard non-destructive testing (NDT) methods including vibration analysis, infrared thermography, and tribology....
- Trent Martz
- IVC Technologies