Engineering Sites
www.bearingsplus.com
Bearings Plus, Inc. They design and fabricate custom engineered
products for turbomachinery including Flexure Pivot tilt pad
bearings, TAMSEAL pocketed dampers, integral squeeze film
dampers and high speed disk pack and diaphragm flexible couplings.
The also have technical articles on rotordynamics available
for free download.
www.betamachinery.com
Beta Machinery Analysis, Ltd. They provide services in design,
troubleshooting, optimization and RM&D (remote monitoring
& diagnostics) of plant machinery. They also have a very
good library of rotating machinery vibration publications
available by email request.
www.engdyn.com Engineering
Dynamics, Incorporated. Expert consultants in machinery dynamics
and piping vibration. They also have a very good collection
of publications available for free download.
www.engineers.com Software library
and links to other sites.
www.goldson.free-online.co.uk
A very good site specific to rotating machinery. Has some
free software, free articles, and links to a lot of other
highly relevant sites.
www.maintenanceforums.com
Another sister web site to vibrationshool.com. Has a variety
of forums and links to other sites.
www.matweb.com A truly
great resource for material properties. A very extensive and
useful online database for a wide range materials.
www.plant-maintenance.com
Lots of information here. Job postings. Publications. Forums.
Long list of software, some of it free.
www.reliabilityweb.com
A sister web site to vibrationschool.com. A great deal of
information focused on machinery reliability. A gateway to
an extensive knowledge base, magazine, email newsletters,
tutorials, conferences, and discussion groups.
www.rmt-inc.com An XLRotor
partner company. Maker of XLPOCKET & XLTLTPAD bearing
design programs. They also provide consulting services along
with servicing and repair of rotating equipment, including
custom engineered bearings and seals.
www.sandv.com
Sound and Vibration Magazine. A great magazine for anyone
making a living in the field of machinery vibration, and it's
free. Articles are available online. Discussion forum.
turbolab.tamu.edu
The Turbomachinery Laboratory of Texas A&M University.
Sponsors of the Turbomachinery and Pump Users Symposia. One
of the best sources for technical articles on dynamics of
rotating machinery available anywhere. Discussion forum. Links
to other turbomachinery related publications.
www.vavco.com Web site
of Professor John M. Vance of Texas A&M University. He
provides consulting services specializing in rotordynamics,
and sales of selected books.
www.vibinst.org The
Vibration Institute. A very good resource on machinery vibration.
Book sales. Vibration forum. Short courses. Online vibration
dictionary.
www.vibrate.net A very
good web site run by Bretech Engineering. Lots of links to
other sites. A good source when you're shopping for software,
measurement hardware and consulting services.
www.vibrationschool.com Vibration School.
Web based vibration analysis training. Good educational resource,
with links to other sites. Sponsors a very active forum on
maintenance and troubleshooting.
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