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MECHANICAL ENG1NEERING (POWER CENERA-TION)

Dat es:    October 22-26. 1984

Place:    Carson City. Nevada

Objective: Emphasizes the mechanisms behind vari-ous machinery malfunctions. Problems associated with rotating equipment used for power generation are highlighted. The seminar i$ designed for mechani-cal, maintenance, and machinery engineers who are involved in the design, acceptance testing.and opera-tion of rotating machinery. Other topics includedata for identifying problems and suggested methods of correction. The seminar also includes a lab session.

Contact:    Bob Grissom. Customer Training Depart

ment. Bently Nevada Corporation. P.O. Box 157, Minden. NV 89423 - [phone].

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS AND SIGNAL PRO-CESSING

Dates:    October 22-26. 1984

Place:    State College, Pennsylvania

Objective: The course is designed to provide a broad. comprehensive introduction to important topics in underwater acoustics and signal Processing. The primary goal is to give participants a practical under-standing of fundamental concepts, along with an appreciation of current research and development activities. Included among the topics offered in this course are: an introduction to acoustic and sonar concepts, transducers and arrays. and turbulent and cavitation noise; an extensive overview of sound propagation modeling and measurement techniques; a physical description of the environment factors affecting deep and shallow water acoustics; a practical guide to sonar electronics; and a tutorial review of analog and digital signal Processing techniques and active echo location developments.

Contact:    Alan D. Stuart, Course Chairman. Ap

plied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, P.O. Box 30. State College. PA 16801 -(814) 8634128.

MARCH

Objective: This vibration control course will include all aspects of vibration control except alignment and balancing. (These topics are covered in separate Institute courses.) Specific topics include active and passive isolation. damping. tuning, reduction of excitation, dynamie absorbers. and auxiliary mass dampers. The generał features of commercially avail-able isolation and damping hardware will be sum-marized. Application of the finite element method to predicting the response of structures will be pre-sented; such predictions are used to minimize struć-tural vibrations during the engineering design process. Lumped mass-spring-damper model ing will be used to describe the translational vibration behavior of pack-ages and machines. Measurement and analysis of vibration responses of machines and structures are included in the course. The course emphasizes the practical aspects of vibration control. Appropriate case histories will be presented for both isolation and damping.

Contact:    Dr. Ronald L. Eshleman, Director, The

Vibration Institute, 101 West 55th Street. Suitę 206, Clarendon Hills, 60514 - [phone].

ROTOR DYNAMICS

Dates:    May 6-10, 1985

Płace.    Syria, Virginia

Objective: The role of rotor/bearing technology in the design, development and diagnostics of industrial machinery will be elaborated. The fundamentals of rotor dynamics; fluid-film bearings. and measurement, analytical, and computational techniques will be presented. The computation and measurement of critical speeds vibration response. and stability of rotor/bearing systems will be discussed in detail. Finite elements and transfer matrix modeling will be refated to computation on mainframe computers. minicomputers, and microprocessors. Modeling and computation of transient rotor behavior and non-linear fluid-film bearing behavior will be described. Sessions will be devoted to flexible rotor balancing including turbogenerator rotors. bow behavior. squeeze-film dampers for turbomachinery, advanced concepts in troubleshooting and instrumentation, and case histories invołving the power and petro-chemical industries.

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YIBRATION CONTROL

Dates:    March 26-29. 1985

Place:    Washington. D C.

Contact: Dr. Ronald L. Eshleman. Director, The Vibration Institute, 101 W. 55th St.. Suitę 206, Clarendon Hills. IL 60514 - [phone].