Training: Course Descriptions

Text: Machinery Vibration: Balancing, McGraw-Hill, by Victor Wowk, 1995

Day 1 History of Balancing • Static Balancing • Practical Aspects • Hazards • Time • Probability of Success • Runout Versus Unbalance • Vectors • Centrifugal Forces • Static, Couple, and Dynamic Unbalance • Trial Weights • Balancing With No Instruments • Amplitude and Phase Sensors • Readout Instruments • Single-Plane Balancing • Strobe Method • Trigger Sensor Method • Calculating Correction Weights • Trim Balancing • Four-Run Method Without Phase • Two-plane Balancing

Day 2 Cross Effect • Influence-Coefficient Method • Static-Couple Method • Three-Plane Balancing • Overhung Rotor • Flexible-Rotor Balancing • Weight Splitting • Combining Weights • Why Balancing May Not Work • Non-linearity • Shop Balancing • Soft Versus Hard Bearing Balancing Machines • Keys • Balancing Standards • Index Balancing • Mass Centering • Balancing Non-Rotating Parts