New Steam Turbine Engineer Helpful Seminars?

[snoopnoon]

Folks,

Recently I was hired as a new steam turbine engineer. My main repsonsability is mechanical/structural engineering including: rotor dynamics, blade and diaphragm vibration analysis and other various Mech Eng tasks.

I was wondering if there are any seminars/training events that might be beneficial to this field. I am located in Massachusettes in U.S. There is a budget put aside that my boss wants to utilize. Travel would not be a problem.


thanks
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[byrdj]

http://www.hpcnet.com/index.html

 

[rmw]

Do some searching around this link. I have gotten some stuff from them regarding the kind of training that you are seeking but I deleted it witout paying a lot of attention to it.

http://turbolab.tamu.edu/symposia/turbomachinerySymposium/

You'll love Houston this time of year if you are from Boston. There is more summer still left here than you ever had in Boston any year.

rmw

 

[spciesla]

For vibration / rotor dynamics training, you may want to try Bently Nevada or RoMaDyn (Don Bently's "new" company).

http://www.ge-energy.com/prod_serv/products/oc/en/bently_nevada.htm

http://www.romadyn.com/index.php

 

[rmw]

There is a tradeshow called "Power Gen" and I think it is in Orlando this year. Typically they have some technical training sessions in the days leading up to the actual conference and some of the conference topics often relate to what you are looking for. Google Power Gen Orlando and see what pops up.

rmw