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. It also incorporates both technical and administrative aspects of rotating equipment manufacture and use, introducing the basic principles of balancing, vibration, noise, and inspection/testing of a wide range of equipment. It makes references 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. Key features: Essential engineering data from a wide range of sources, Practical and easy-to-use format, Compact and easily accessible, Fully illustrated, and Core technical/legislative data. Engineers' Guide to Rotating Equipment will be a great source of interest and value to engineers, technicians, and students with activities in the rotating equipment business.