Articles

Vibration Analysis

• A Brief Tutorial on Machine Vibration
• A Practical Approach to Solving Machine Vibration Problems
• Deducing Vibration Data
• Serious or Benign
• The Five Conditions
• The Danger with Set Screw Locking Bearings
• The Real Physics of Machine Vibration
• Vibration Energy

Balancing

• Field Balancing Standards
• A Management Guide to Balancing
• Field Balancing Standards: How Good is Good Enough?, Uptime, Sept 2007
• Balancing and Its Effects on Vibration Response
• Balancing the Options: A guide to Instrumentation for Balancing
• Field Balancing Revealed
• Instruments for Balancing
• What is Wrong with my Balancing Instrument?
• Precision Balancing of Reciprocating Engines
• The Trouble with Balancing
• What Can Be Done When Balancing Is Not Working

Alignment

• Specifying Shaft Alignment, Maintenance Technology, May 2000
• Checking Bearing Alignment
• Why is Bearing Alignment Important?
• Debunking Laser Shaft Alignment
• Selecting Alignment Instruments
• Specifying Shaft Alignment - Maintenance Technology May, 2000

Philosophy in Science

• What is Centrifugal Force?
• Why not Resonate?
• The Properties of Space
• Power Requirements for Levitation in a Gravity Field