• Rotating unbalance is the uneven distribution of mass around an axis of rotation. A rotating mass, or rotor, is said to be out of balance when its center...
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  • imbalance. A rotating imbalance is caused by uneven mass distributions on rotating assemblies Types of rotating phase imbalance are: Unbalanced eccentric...
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    Tire balance, also called tire unbalance or tire imbalance, describes the distribution of mass within an automobile tire or the entire wheel (including...
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    power source. A geared ring and a rotating unbalance mass segment made of tungsten encircles the entire mechanism, rotating on carbon rollers whenever the...
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    engines on U.S. aircraft : none of the four incidents of rotor disk (rotating) unbalance and subsequent failure resulted in an accident, but parts of the...
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    source, where a geared ring and a rotating unbalance mass segment made of tungsten encircles the entire mechanism, rotating on carbon rollers whenever the...
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  • of clip-on lead (or currently zinc) 'wheel weights'. When an unbalanced system is rotating, periodic linear and/or torsional forces are generated which...
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  • missing magnetic wedges Unbalanced Magnetic Pull (UMP) describes the electromagnetic equivalence of mechanical rotating unbalance: if electromagnetic forces...
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    vibration peak gives the angle at which the unbalance exists. Amount of unbalance and angle of unbalance give an unbalance vector. Calibration is performed by...
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    the rotating frame). With these two forces balanced, in the rotating frame the only unbalanced force is Coriolis (also present only in the rotating frame)...
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    apply Newton's laws of motion in the rotating frame. The Earth constitutes a rotating reference frame because it rotates once every 23 hours and 56 minutes...
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  • critical speed. All rotating shafts, even in the absence of external load, will deflect during rotation. The unbalanced mass of the rotating object causes deflection...
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    modifies the sound by rotating a baffle chamber ("drum") in front of the loudspeakers. A similar effect is provided by a rotating system of horns in front...
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  • the main aspects of rotating machinery which must be studied in detail and considered while designing. All objects including rotating machinery exhibit...
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    to have a four-wire secondary and a three-wire primary, while allowing unbalanced loads and the associated secondary-side neutral currents. Wiring for three...
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    reduce vibration by cancelling out unbalanced dynamic forces. The counter balance shafts have eccentric weights and rotate in the opposite direction to each...
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    The vibration is provided by an electric motor in the handle that rotates an unbalanced flywheel mounted either within the vibrating ball connected to the...
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    rotating equipment, such as pumps, mixers, blowers, and compressors. When a pump operates, the liquid could leak out of the pump between the rotating...
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  • impending aerodynamic stall. Eccentric rotating mass (ERM) vibrators work by rotating a deliberately unbalanced weight, so the weight is eccentric. Linear...
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    Coupling (category Rotating shaft couplings)
    transmitting power. The primary purpose of couplings is to join two pieces of rotating equipment while permitting some degree of misalignment or end movement...
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    appears to push objects outward in a rotating system; the Coriolis force, which affects moving objects in a rotating frame such as the Earth; and the Euler...
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    fast corners as the "dirty" (turbulent) air that comes off the lead car unbalances the trailing car as its aerodynamic devices provide less grip. On the...
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    Centrifugal governor (category Rotating machines)
    irregularities almost before they become evident; and in like manner no unbalanced deficiency in the animal kingdom can ever reach any conspicuous magnitude...
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  • force has a smaller equatorial component and a vertical component. The unbalanced forces on the two fins lead to torque and the object spins. The torque...
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    with the AVL rules. If it becomes ±2 then the subtree is unbalanced and needs to be rotated. (Unlike insertion where a rotation always balances the tree...
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    energy to a motor already rotating, but without auxiliary mechanisms the motor will not accelerate from a stop. A rotating magnetic field of steady amplitude...
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    larger magazine with heavier ammunition of a full-powered rifle tended to unbalance the weapon. In addition controllable bursts were difficult. This made...
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    especially lengthy single-column magazine, and this feature tended to unbalance the weapon. Despite these similarities, there is no evidence that either...
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    in order to minimize the eccentricity of the disc and the associated unbalance forces at high speeds. For this reason, two cycloid discs are often mounted...
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  • Balance shaft – Weights used to balance otherwise unbalanced engine movement Cam (mechanism) – Rotating or sliding component that transmits variable motion...
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