This Book Primarily Written To Meet The Needs Of Practicing Engineers In A Large Variety Of Industries Where Reciprocating Machines Are Used, Although All Of The Material Is Suitable For College Undergraduate Level Design Engineering Courses. It Is Expected That The Reader Is Familiar With Basic To Medium Level Calculus Offered At The College Undergraduate Level.The First Chapter Of The Book Deals With Classical Vibration Theory, Starting With A Single Degree Of Freedom System, To Develop Concepts Of Damping, Response And Unbalance. The Second Chapter Deals With Types And Classification Of Reciprocating Machines, While The Third Chapter Discusses Detail-Design Aspects Of Machine Components. The Fourth Chapter Introduces The Dynamics Of Slider And Cranks Mechanism, And Provides Explanation Of The Purpose And Motion Of Various Components.The Fifth Chapter Looks Into Dynamic Forces Created In The System, And Methods To Balance Gas Pressure And Inertia Loads. The Sixth Chapter Explains The Torsional Vibration Theory And Looks At The Different Variables Associated With It. Chapter Seven Analyzes Flexural Vibrations And Lateral Critical Speed Concepts, Together With Journal Bearings And Their Impact On A Rotating System. Advanced Analytical Techniques To Determine Dynamic Characteristics Of All Major Components Of Reciprocating Machinery Are Presented In Chapter Eight. Methods To Mitigate Torsional Vibrations In A Crankshaft Using Absorbers Are Analyzed In Close Detail. Various Mechanisms Of Flexural Excitation Sources And Their Response On A Rotor-Bearing System Are Explored. Stability Of A Rotor And Different Destabilizing Mechanisms Are Also Included In This Chapter.Techniques In Vibration Measurement And Balancing Of Reciprocating And Rotating Systems Are Presented In Chapter Nine. Chapter Ten Looks At Computational Fluid Dynamics Aspects Of Flow Through Intake And Exhaust Manifolds, As Well As Fluid Flow Induced Component Vibrations. Chapter Eleven Extends This Discussion To Pressure Pulsations In Piping Attached To Reciprocating Pumps And Compressors. Chapter Twelve Considers The Interaction Between The Structural Dynamics Of Components And Noise, Together With Methods To Improve Sound Quality. Optimized Design Of Components Of Reciprocating Machinery For Specified Parameters And Set Target Values Is Investigated At Length In Chapter Thirteen. Practicing Engineers Interested In Applying The Theoretical Model To Their Own Operating System Will Find Case Histories Shown In Chapter FourteenUseful.

The Third Revised And Enlarged Edition Of The Book Presents An In-Depth Study Of The Dynamic Behaviour Of Rotating And Reciprocating Machinery. It Evolved Out Of Lectures Delivered At Different Universities Over The Last Two Decades. The Book Deals With Torsional And Bending Vibrations Of Rotors, Stability Aspects, Balancing And Condition Monitoring. Closed Form Solutions Are Given Wherever Possible And Parametric Studies Presented To Give A Clear Understanding Of The Subject. Transfer Matrix Methods Is Extensively Used For General Class Of Rotors For Both Bending And Torsional Vibrations.Special Attentions Are Given To Transient Analysis Of The Rotors Which Is Becoming An Essential Part Of The Design Of High Speed Machinery. Systems With Fluid Film Bearings, Cracked Rotors And Two Spool Rotors Are Also Presented.A First Course On Theory Of Vibration Is A Prerequisite To This Study. Analysis Used Is Fairly Simple, But Sufficiently Advanced To The Requisite Level Of Predicting Practical Observations. As Far As Possible, Practical Examples Are Illustrated, So That The Book Is Also Useful To Practising Engineers.A Special Feature Of This Book Is Diagnostics Of Rotating Machinery Using Vibration Signature Analysis And Application Of Expert Systems To A Field Engineer In Trouble Shooting Work.

This book starts with the invention of the wheel nearly 5000 years ago, and via Archimedes, Aristotle and Hero describes the first practical applications such as water wheels and grinding wheels, pushing on to more rigorous scientific research by inquiring minds such as Leonardo da Vinci and Copernicus in later ages. Newton and Leibniz followed, and beam structures received maximum attention three centuries ago. As focus shifts and related disciplines such as mathematics and physics also develop, slowly turbomachines and rotor and blade dynamics as we know the subject now take shape. While the book traces the events leading to Laval and Parsons Turbines, the emphasis is on rotor and blade dynamics aspects that pushed these turbines to their limits in the last century. The tabular and graphical methods developed in the pre-computer era have taken different form in the last fifty years through finite element methods. The methods evolved in the last century are discussed in detail to help modern day designers and researchers. This book will be useful to young researchers and engineers in industry and educational institutions engaged in rotor and blade dynamics work in understanding the past and the present developments and what is expected in future. Faculty and industry engineers can benefit from this broad perspective history in formulating their developmental plans.

Mechanics of Machinery describes the analysis of machines, covering both the graphical and analytical methods for examining the kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms with low and high pairs. This text, developed and updated from a version published in 1973, includes analytical analysis for all topics discussed, allowing for the use of math software

About the Book: STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS OF TURBO-MACHINES presents a detailed and comprehensive treatment of structural vibration evaluation of turbo-machines. Starting with the fundamentals of the theory of vibration as related to various aspects of rotating machines, the dynamic analysis procedures of a broad spectrum of turbo-machines is covered. An in-depth procedure for analyzing the torsional and flexural oscillations of the components and of the rotor-bearing system is presented. The latest trends in design and analysis are presented, chief among them: Blade and coupled disk-blade mod.

The concept of moving machine members during a thermodynamic cycle and the variation of displacements, velocities and accelerations forms the subject of kinematics.The study of forces that make the motion is the subject of kinetics; combining these two subjects leads to dynamics of machinery. When we include the machinery aspects such as links, kinematic chains, and mechanisms to form a given machine we have the subject of Theory of Machines. Usually this subject is introduced as a two-semester course, where kinematics and kinetics are taught simultaneously with thermodynamics or heat engines before progressing to the design of machine members. This book provides the material for first semester of a Theory of Machines- course. Th is book brings in the machine live onto the screen and explains the theory of machines concepts through animations and introduces how the problems are solved in industry to present a complete history in the shortest possible time rather than using graphical (or analytical) methods. Thus the students are introduced to the concepts through visual means which brings industrial applications by the end of the two semester program closer, and equips them better for design courses. The International Federation for promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) has developed standard nomenclature and notation on Mechanism and Machine Science and this book adopts these standards so that any communication between scientists and in the classrooms across the world can make use of the same terminology. This book adopts HyperWorks MotionSolve to perform the analysis and visualizations, though the book can be used independent of the requirement of any particular software. However, having this software helps in further studies and analysis. The avis can be seen by entering the ISBN of this book at the Springer Extras website at extras.springer.com