PROCEEDINGS

National Technical Training Symposium

and
Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting

July 9-11, 2003

Vibration Institute
A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION

6262 South Kingery Highway, Suite 212

Willowbrook, Illinois 60527
Phone: 630/654-2254
Fax: 630/654-2271

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CASE HISTORY OF A SLIP-STICK COUPLING FAILURE 1

Robert C. Eisenmann, Sr., Hickham Industries, Inc., LaPorte, Texas

DIAGNOSING RUBS IN TURBOMACHINERY 11

Steven M. Schultheis, Equistar Chemicals LP, Channelview, Texas

RESONANCE - THEORY & PRACTICE 21

Charles Jackson, Turbomachinery Consultant, Texas City, Texas

MACHINERY DIAGNOSTICS AND ANALYSIS 41

William C. Foiles and Mark Dimond, General Electric Company, Atlanta, Georgia

THE MONEY TREE: $1,000,000 SAVED THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE

CONDITION MONITORING PROGRAM 49
Taft McNeal, Metro Water Services, Nashville, Tennessee

NOW I'M A BELIEVER 59

Ronnie E. Williams, Metro Water Services, Nashville, Tennessee

VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF AN INDUCED DRAFT FAN FOUNDATION 63

B. Alavi and M. Saiedfar, Ontario Power Generation, Toronto, Canada

FLEXURAL CRITICAL SPEED OF SINGLE-WIDE FAN ROTORS 69

Robert J. Sayer, Sayer & Associates, Inc., Medina, Ohio

ROTOR DYNAMICS AS A TOOL FOR SOLVING VIBRATION PROBLEMS 73

Malcolm E. Leader, Applied Machinery Dynamics Company, Dickinson, Texas

UNUSUAL VIBRATION PROBLEMS IN THE POWER INDUSTRY 101

Aly El-Shafei, RITEC, Cairo, Egypt

PHASE ANGLE CONTINUOUS MONITORING DETECTS BLADE FAILURE 109

Damon E. Woodson and Thomas B. Lantrip, Georgia Power, Juliette, Georgia

BALANCING A 200 MW STEAM TURBINE WITH THERMAL RESTRICTIONS 115

Ronald L. Eshleman, Vibration Institute, Willowbrook, Illinois

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS: A NUMERICAL TOOL FOR

VIBRATION ANALYSIS 119
Robert J. Sayer, Sayer & Associates, Inc., Medina, Ohio

USING THE INVERSE FFT FOR FILTERING, TRANSIENT DETAILS,

AND RESAMPLING 127
Howard A. Gaberson, Consultant, Oxnard, California
THE USE OF PEAKVUE® FOR FAULT DETECTION AND SEVERITY ASSESSMENT:
DEMONSTRATED THROUGH REPRESENTATIVE CASE STUDIES 137
James C. Robinson, Emerson Process Management/CSI, Knoxville, Tennessee

SOURCES OF ERROR IN THE MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION

OF PIPING STEADY-STATE VIBRATIONS 155
Brian J. Voll, Sargent & Lundy LLC, Chicago, Illinois and
Ed Salfelder, Exelon, Clinton, Illinois

THE CASE OF THE MISSING FILE 165

Johan S. Spijker, Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation, Rochester, New York and
Tony DeMatteo, Computational Systems, Inc., Knoxville, Tennessee

FIELD ANALYSIS AND BALANCING TOOLS 175

Dennis H. Shreve, IRD Balancing, Westerville, Ohio

MEASURING TRUE MACHINERY DYNAMIC MOVEMENT 185

Ron Sullivan, VibrAlign, Inc., Richmond, Virginia