Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by cyw

  1. cyw

    Generator Vibration

    I am going to acquire the vibratiob data of a turbine driven generator in few days time. The generator's vibration has been picking up since last month. I suspect it could be caused by soft foot/loosening support. Can anybody recommend what characteristic(s) that I should look for/what are the...
  2. cyw

    balance weight effect

    Thanks butelja & VibtrationSpecialist. Can you elaborate more on the 2x2 influence coefficient matrix? What is in row 1 column 1, row 2 column 2, row 2 column 1 and row 2 column 2? I can back-calculate these value using the formula given by butelja, but I want to know what does each of these...
  3. cyw

    balance weight effect

    I am new to vibration issue, and very keen to know more about it. I need to balance a simple turbine rotor. The vibration level at bearing 1 is 4.3mil pp while bearing 2 is 1.8mil pp. I want to bring down the vibration level on bearing 1 without affecting bearing 2. Does anybody know how to...

Part and Inventory Search