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 legislation that regulates this field. Legislation has very important implications for works inspection and in–service inspection of mechanical plant.

An Engineers Guide to Rotating Equipment is packed with information, technical data, figures, tables and checklists. Details of relevant technical standards, the legislation and Accepted Codes of Practice (AcoPs) published by various bodies such as HSE and SAFed, are provided in addition to a number of website addresses and contact details.

COMPLETE CONTENTS:

Engineering fundamentals

Bending, torsion, and stress

Motion and dynamics

Rotating machine fundamentals: Vibration, balancing, and noise

Machine elements

Fluid mechanics

Centrifugal pumps

Compressors and turbocompressors

Prime movers

Draught plant

Basic mechanical design

Materials of construction

The machinery directives 

Organisations and associations.