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This 4-part series is designed for engineers and technical managers who are involved in rotating machinery design, operation, maintenance, diagnostics, and troubleshooting, with emphasis on bearings and bearings systems, machinery rotor dynamics, and drive train torsional vibration.

✔️ No previous experience is required.

✔️ Participants are encouraged to present real-world problems to be discussed.

✔️ Each student receives a certification of completion reflecting earned professional development hours. 

Flexible registration fee schedule

• • 1 day  =  $795    
  • 2 days  =  $1495    
  • 3 days  =  $2095    
  • 4 days  =  $2295

DAY 1  FLUID-FILM BEARINGS                     

Monday, May 12 will focus on bearings, the vital tribological element of rotating machinery, beginning with their fundamental principles of operation through computer-implemented evaluations of their operational performance characteristics and limitations. Design considerations and applications of fluid-film bearings will be discussed along with the presentation of numerous real-life case histories to illustrate the technology and its application to rotating machinery failure analysis and troubleshooting of common, as well as, unique vibration problems. Following fluid-film bearings, an introduction to rolling element bearings will be presented illustrating their various applications and their effects on system rotor dynamics.

DAYS 2 & 3   ROTOR DYNAMICS & TORSIONAL VIBRATION

Tuesday & Wednesday, May 13-14 will focus on rotating machinery dynamics (rotor dynamics & torsional vibration). The interacting influence of bearings on the dynamic behavior of machinery will be reviewed and illustrated by the construction of analytical models, and evaluated by computerized solutions. Participants are encouraged to present problems to be discussed. Informal technical sessions and workshops are intended to provide participants with adequate time to describe problems they have encountered in bearings, bearing systems, rotor dynamics, and torsional vibration.

DAY 4 ARMD SOFTWARE WORKSHOP AND APPLIED EXAMPLES OF REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS

Thursday, May 15 will provide expert-level ARMD™ software demonstration, training, and application to bearings, bearing systems, rotor dynamics, and torsional vibration modeling, analyses, and interpretation of generated results. Participants can bring their own rotating machinery and bearings problems to be presented and discussed in an open session, watch a problem development and solution, or use the software and create their own models and perform the analysis of their interest. Time will be allocated to discuss FAQs and details of the ARMD software.

Participants will have access to the Advanced Rotating Machinery Dynamics software package ARMD™ at the seminars for problem-solving and for the application of state-of-the-art computer-aided engineering of bearings and rotor dynamics. 

Representative rotating assembly illustrating various applied radial forces

INSTRUCTORS

VICTOR K. OBEID has over 35 years of experience in the fields of rotor dynamics, fluid-film and rolling-element bearings, machinery vibration, failure analysis, and troubleshooting.

He is a pioneer in the development and application of PC-based state-of-the-art computer-aided design software for predicting the dynamics of complex rotor-bearing systems. A former Staff Engineer at the Franklin Institute Research Laboratories and a technical leader at RBTS, he directs government and industry-sponsored projects involving the design, analysis, and troubleshooting of rotating machinery systems and their components.

He has been instrumental in teaching and training in the fields of bearings and rotor dynamics, and their application to common as well as unique equipment design, operation, and failure analysis. He taught seminars and training sessions worldwide at rotating equipment OEM, end users, packagers, government agencies, and open seminars to machinery engineers.

Mr. Obeid holds a Bachelor's degree from Drexel University and a Master of Science degree from Penn State University, both in Mechanical Engineering. He holds numerous US & Canadian patents on bearing designs & machinery elements.

CHARLES W. YEISER has over 30 years of experience in the technical evaluation of structural and rotating machinery dynamics that encompasses application, design, software development, systems evaluation, failure analysis, and troubleshooting.

He has extensive experience in developing linear and non-linear finite element and specialized fluid-film/rolling-element bearing applications, which included structural deformation and heat transfer. For more than 20 years he has developed and successfully applied advanced computational techniques to evaluate torsional vibrations in hundreds of mechanical drive systems.

Mr. Yeiser holds a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Franklin & Marshall College, as well as Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

THOMAS GRESHAM has extensive experience in delivering structural analysis, rotordynamics, bearing analysis, seal design, and test planning in addition to teaching sections for Concepts NREC’s advanced turbomachinery engineering training courses.

He brings additional compressor design and rotordynamics engineering experience from his roles as a Compressor Design Engineer at Daikin Applied, a Rotordynamics Engineer at Xdot Engineering & Analysis, and as a Rotordynamics Engineer at Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut.

Mr. Gresham holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia, specializing in rotordynamics and vibrations.