These notes are based on original notes prepared by Dr. Ravindra gadangi, Turbocare, Inc., Houston, 1995. The need to increase the efficiency and power output of typical turbomachines has brought them to operate at higher speeds. Other types of bearing geometries have been devised to reduce the potential of subsynchronous whirl. Tilting pad bearings offer an unsurpassed advantage, since each pad is able to rotate about a pivot thus attaining its own equilibrium position
These notes are based on original notes prepared by Dr. Ravindra gadangi, Turbocare, Inc., Houston, 1995. The need to increase the efficiency and power output of typical turbomachines has brought them to operate at higher speeds. Other types of bearing geometries have been devised to reduce the potential of subsynchronous whirl. Tilting pad bearings offer an unsurpassed advantage, since each pad is able to rotate about a pivot thus attaining its own equilibrium position
These notes are based on original notes prepared by Dr. Ravindra gadangi, Turbocare, Inc., Houston, 1995. The need to increase the efficiency and power output of typical turbomachines has brought them to operate at higher speeds. Other types of bearing geometries have been devised to reduce the potential of subsynchronous whirl. Tilting pad bearings offer an unsurpassed advantage, since each pad is able to rotate about a pivot thus attaining its own equilibrium position