History of Rotating Machinery Dynamics (History of Mechanism and Machine Science (20))

This book starts with the invention of the wheel nearly 5000 years ago, and via Archimedes, Aristotle and Hero describes the first practical applications such as water wheels and grinding wheels, pushing on to more rigorous scientific research by inquiring minds such as Leonardo da Vinci and Copernicus in later ages. Newton and Leibniz followed, and beam structures received maximum attention three centuries ago. As focus shifts and related disciplines such as mathematics and physics also develop, slowly turbomachines and rotor and blade dynamics as we know the subject now take shape. While the book traces the events leading to Laval and Parsons Turbines, the emphasis is on rotor and blade dynamics aspects that pushed these turbines to their limits in the last century. The tabular and graphical methods developed in the pre-computer era have taken different form in the last fifty years through finite element methods. The methods evolved in the last century are discussed in detail to help modern day designers and researchers. This book will be useful to young researchers and engineers in industry and educational institutions engaged in rotor and blade dynamics work in understanding the past and the present developments and what is expected in future. Faculty and industry engineers can benefit from this broad perspective history in formulating their developmental plans. **Indexed in the Book Citation Index– Science (BKCI-S)** Front Matter....Pages - Beginnings of the Wheel....Pages 1-4 Science before the Medieval Period....Pages 5-7 Water Wheels....Pages 9-12 Wind Mills....Pages 13-14 Renaissance and Scientific Revolution....Pages 15-21 Renaissance Engineers....Pages 23-30 Industrial Revolution....Pages 31-34 Turbomachines....Pages 35-43 Fundamentals of Elasticity....Pages 45-47 Energy Methods....Pages 49-98 20th Century Graphical and Numerical Methods....Pages 99-114 Matrix Methods....Pages 115-139 Finite Element Methods....Pages 141-183 Rotor Dynamics Methods....Pages 185-251 Transfer Matrix Methods....Pages 253-267 Finite Element Methods for Rotor Dynamics....Pages 269-297 Bladed Disks....Pages 299-325 Lifing....Pages 327-340 Optimization....Pages 341-351 Concluding Remarks....Pages 353-354 Back Matter....Pages -