Engineers' Guide to Rotating Equipment : The Pocket Reference

This handy reference source is a companion volume to the author's Engineers' Guide to Pressure Equipment. Heavily illustrated, and containing a wealth of useful data, it offers inspectors, engineers, operatives, and those maintaining engineering equipment a one-stop, everyday package of information. It will be particularly helpful in guiding users through the European Machinery Directive regulating this field.

Engineers' Guide to Rotating Equipment incorporates both technical and administrative aspects of rotating equipment manufacture and use, introducing the basic principles of balancing, vibration, noise, and inspection and testing of a wide range of equipment. It makes reference to the most commonly used current and recent technical codes and standards, and simplifies their complex content into a form that is easier to understand.

essential engineering data from a wide range of sources
-practical and easy-to-use format
-compact and easily accessible
-fully illustrated
-core technical and legislative data

Covering the practical, theoretical, and legislative aspects of rotating equipment technology, Engineers’ Guide to Rotating Equipment is packed with information, technical data, illustrations, tables, and checklists. It will be a great source of interest and value to engineers, technicians, and students with activities in the rotating equipment business.

About the Author
Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1 : Engineering Fundamentals
Chapter 2 : Bending, Torsion, and Stress
Chapter 3 : Motion and Dynamics
Chapter 4 : Rotating Machine Fundamentals: Vibration, Balancing, and Noise
Chapter 5 : Machine Elements
Chapter 6 : Fluid Mechanics
Chapter 7 : Centrifugal Pumps
Chapter 8 : Compressors and Turbocompressors
Chapter 9 : Prime Movers
Chapter 10 : Draught Plant
Chapter 11 : Basic Mechanical Design
Chapter 12 : Materials of Construction
Chapter 13 : The Machinery Directive
Chapter 14 : Organizations and Associations

Index