• Rotating equipment engineers, operators, vibration analysts and technicians, supervisors and managers responsible for operation, maintenance and reliability of rotating equipment.
• OEM designers of rotating equipment who require knowledge of the root causes of vibration and the mechanisms that lead to harmful malfunctions.

The course will provide knowledge and skills to better operate, maintain, manage, diagnose and design rotating machinery using vibration information and fundamentals of rotating machinery diagnostics. Students will learn to interpret start-up/shutdown and steady state vibration data plots, understand the sources of rotating machinery vibration and to recognize common machinery malfunctions. The course makes s extensive use of hands-on workshops using full-featured field diagnostic equipment to reinforce lecture topics. Students will receive a manual containing workshop exercises and reference materials as well as a copy of Fundamentals of Rotating Machinery Diagnostics, written by vibration monitoring pioneer and rotordynamics researcher Donald E. Bently. This comprehensive book is a practical guide that thoroughly explains and demystifies the essential concepts needed for effective machinery diagnostics.

Topics include:

• The Fundamentals of Sleeve Bearing Vibration for Turbomchinery
• Basic Vibration Signal
• Displacement / Velocity / Acceleration
• Vibration Vectors
• Frequency
• Amplitude
• Phase
• Vibration of Machines
• Phase Measurement Workshop
   
• Interpreting Vibration Data Plots
• Steady State Plots: Timebase, Orbit, Average Shaft Centerline Plots
• Start-up and Shutdown Plots: Bode, Polar, APHT
• Spectrum Plots
• Trend Plots
• Vibration Plot Workshop
   
• Static and Dynamic Rotor Response
• The Rotor System Model and the Forces Acting on the Rotor
• Dynamic Stiffness and Rotor Behavior
• Single Plane Balancing
• Single Plane Balancing Workshop
• Modes of Vibration
• Anisotropic Stiffness
• Torsional and Axial Vibration
   
• Introduction to Machinery Malfunction Diagnosis
• Unbalance
• Multi-plane Balancing Workshop
• Misalignment and High Radial Loads
• Rubs and Looseness
• Rubs Workshop
• Fluid-Induced Instabilities (Oil Whirl and Oil Whip)
• Fluid-Induced Instabilities Workshop
• Shaft Cracks
• Case History Workshop