front cover -- copyright -- table of contents -- front matter -- About the author -- Preface -- body -- 1 Introduction -- The first machines a brief history -- The need for balancing -- The industrial revolution -- The history of balancing -- Why do we balance? -- Balancing is not an additional expense! -- Vibration, causes and effects -- Simple vibration -- Complex vibration -- Damping -- Why is vibration so bad? -- What is the cause of vibration? -- Misalignment -- Damaged bearings -- Bent shaft -- Turbulence -- Hydraulic (or aerodynamic) unbalance -- Cavitation -- Oil whirl -- Looseness -- Bearing lubrication -- Worn or damaged gear -- Unbalance -- 2 Eliminate unwanted motion! -- Introduction -- How do we do that? -- Balancing is Science, Technology and Art -- What is the cost of balancing a rotor? -- What are alternatives to balancing? -- What is the benefit of proper balancing? -- Unbalance is not good for my product! -- How do we implement the program? -- Mission possible -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Newton's first law -- Newton's second law -- Newton's third law -- Energy balance -- Baseball -- Golf -- Rotary motion -- Know your forces -- Inward or outward? -- Flying free -- Which direction? -- Bearing load -- Acceleration -- Moment of a force -- Moment is a vector quantity -- Relation of force to balancing -- The cost of increased performance -- Balance tolerances and performance -- Unbalance and speed -- Centrifugal force -- Unbalance and speed -- Unbalance defined -- Everything together -- Correcting unbalance. How do we do that? -- 3 The balancing process -- Overview of real balancing tolerances -- Summary -- Rotor unbalance defined -- Specific unbalance -- Sources of unbalance -- Force, unbalance and speed -- How to balance? -- What is balancing? -- Rotor balancing -- Rotor axes -- Review definitions -- Mass axis -- What is a micron?.

Balancing defined -- Force/vibration -- Rotor rigidity characteristics -- Static unbalance -- Couple unbalance -- Dynamic unbalance -- Measurement and correction -- Single unbalance - 1 -- Single unbalance - 2 -- Single unbalance - 1a -- Single unbalance - 2a -- Two unbalances -- Vector addition -- Unbalance in two planes -- Unbalance outside the bearings -- Getting to be too much? -- Plane separation -- Machine setup -- Balancing machine basics -- Measure, then correct unbalance -- Correction -- Correction, 3 ways -- What are the limits? -- Noise is the limit -- Noise signature -- The right tolerance -- Standards again -- ISO 1940 -- Example grades -- Getting at the numbers -- API 610 -- Fundamentals of balancing -- The importance of ANGLE -- Phase error -- Phase shift -- Correction efficiency -- Unbalance vector -- Angle error chart -- Correction ratio -- Why not 'zero' -- Measuring errors -- Correction error -- Plane separation -- Is the process in control? -- Process parameters -- Gage R&R -- Cpk -- Balancing efficiency -- Balancing machine testing -- How to be sure your machine does what you need -- Balancer specifications -- Test requirements and specifications -- Balancing machine types -- 1. Horizontal or vertical orientation of the rotor axis -- 2. Soft bearing or hard bearing -- 3. Single or two plane -- 4. Single plane balancers -- Unbalance correction -- In place balancing -- In place balancing procedures and pitfalls -- Active balancing -- 4 Tooling and production -- Balance tooling -- Like the care and feeding of monkeys -- Tooling solutions -- Simple tooling -- Mechanical expanding tooling -- Hydraulic expanding tooling -- Diaphragm type tooling -- Production tooling -- A closer look at tooling -- Expanding tooling (production application) -- Selection of tooling -- Runout compensation -- Graphic representation - 1.

Graphic representation - 2 -- A quick review -- Other types of tooling -- More tooling -- Machine tool cutter balancing -- Vertical spindle balancer -- HSK tooling -- Index.