Columns are the silent workhorses of the structural world, supporting massive loads and keeping buildings and bridges standing tall. But what happens when a column experiences too much load? The answer lies in a phenomenon called buckling. What is Column ...
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Critical Speed of a Shaft
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Critical Speed or Whirling Speed The critical speed is the angular velocity that excites the natural frequency of the rotating objects like rotors, shafts…etc., resulting in severe vibration of the shaft in the transverse direction. Critical speed is also known ...
Balancing of Rigid Rotating Systems
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Balancing of Rigid Rotating Systems The purpose of balancing is to balance the centrifugal forces and moments that are induced due to the non-uniform distribution of mass around the axis of rotation (or shaft axis) by adding or removing the ...