Sound and Vibration back issues from March 2007:
61st MFPT Meeting
Mar 01, 2007; ... The 61st meeting of the Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology (MFPT) will be held April 17-18 in Virginia Beach, VA at the Ramada Plaza Resort Oceanfront Hotel. The theme of this year's conference is "Integration of Machinery Failure Prevention Technologies into Systems Health ...
Vibration Symposium
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Vibration Institute announces its 2007 Technical Symposium and 31st Annual Meeting to be held in San Antonio, TX, on June 19-22, at the Monger Hotel. The symposium will include technical papers in various vibration analysis disciplines, including rolling-element bearings, precision spindles, ...
B&K/VXI Interface
Mar 01, 2007; ... Brüel & Kjer has announced that its PULSE(TM) data acquisition and analysis platform will support VXI hardware (from leading VXI Bus manufacturer VXI Technology) for its I-deas Test customer base. At the beginning of 2005, Bruel & Kjer, together with Maya HTT, acquired the I-deas Test ...
LMS Gets Peugeot Order
Mar 01, 2007; ... LMS International has announced that PSA Peugeot Citroën has selected LMS Virtual.Lab as the main integrated simulation platform for body, chassis, engine and full vehicle engineering. LMS Virtual.Lab will support engineers at the French automotive company in performing realistic simulation ...
Endevco Selected for F-35
Mar 01, 2007; ... Endevco Corporation, a supplier of mission critical sensor instrumentation to the military and defense community, has announced the delivery of the first ship set of sensors for the F-35 Lightning II flight test program to Lockheed Martin Ft. Worth, TX. Endevco sensors will take flight ...
EST Archives
Mar 01, 2007; ... IEST members have unrestricted access to an expanded, 20-year archive of papers and articles ....
Well, but we can't do that because . . .
Mar 01, 2007; ... When a child does not receive the desired parental answer, most respond with 'but . . . .' After proceeding toward adulthood, the 'but' seems to be preceded with 'well.' The next advancement is to extend the ubiquitous 'well, but' by entering into explanation and justification with 'because. ' ...
Combustor Acoustic Simulation Improves Reliability of Siemens Power Generation Systems
Mar 01, 2007; ... To further increase power generation performance, the development of modern gas turbines focuses on realizing higher turbine inlet temperature and lower nitrogen-derivative emissions. Due to high-power densities, the advanced combustion systems of gas turbines, unfortunately, are prone to ...
Turbomachinery Condition Monitoring and Failure Prognosis
Mar 01, 2007; ... This article provides a broad overview of developments and progress in condition monitoring, diagnostics and failure prognosis technology applicable to high performance turbomachines. An assessment is made of current technological capabilities in this critical area. Selected maintenance ...
11 Problems - 11 Solutions: Case Histories of 11 Machinery Vibration Problems - Part 1
Mar 01, 2007; ... This two-part article covers a series of eleven machinery vibration problems encountered over a three year period. While each case history is not necessarily outstanding in its own right, they do show the type of equipment problems encountered in today's industrial environment. Many problems ...
PRODUCTS AND LITERATURE
Mar 01, 2007; ... Vibration Meter Triaxial pocket-sized vibration meter VM-30 is a 12 oz (350 g) unit suited for bearing vibration, whole-body, and hand-arm vibration. Machine vibration can be measured as acceleration, velocity or displacement with selectable frequency ranges from 0.4 Hz to 10 kHz. Unit ...