Spring 2021 Short Course “Practical Rotordynamics for Real Machinery” Being Held Virtual – Cost $1,950 For more information or to register www.rotordynamicscourse.com

New Patent Granted We have been granted a new patent, Patent No.: US 10,626,916. Click here to see a full list of our patents.

More State-of-the-Art Xdot Foil Bearing Test Rigs Shipped! Two more state-of-the-art Xdot foil bearing test rigs were shipped to our customer last week. Xdot provided custom designs and manufacturing for these thrust and radial bearing rigs, giving our customer the edge over their competition. Both rigs are capable of 50,000 rpm and provide a range…

Xdot has shipped the initial order of 24 of the smallest thrust bearings we have ever built!

Xdot’s design experience has expanded to include 12mm and 14mm radial wing foil bearings.

Winter 2020 – February 10-13, 2020 Location: Sarasota, FL Cost: $2750 To register or for more information visit www.nobullengineering.com. Click here to view the brochure.

High Speed Electrical Machinery Windage In 2012, Xdot Engineering and Analysis completed a Phase I/Phase II SBIR effort funded by the US Air Force. This goal of the project was to develop methods of reducing windage loss in high speed electrical machinery in the range of 50 kW to 200 kW. The project consisted of…

In early 2018, Xdot was awarded a two-year, $749,882 Phase II STTR contract from the US Navy to continue subscale testing and development of a water lubricated bearing software analysis tool.

Evolution And Trend Of API 617 Compressor Rotordynamic Criteria Pettinato, B.C., Kocur, J.A., Swanson, E.E., 2011 Turbomachinery, Transactions of the Turbomachinery Society of Japan Abstract This paper traces the history of the American Petroleum Institute acceptance standards for compressor machinery dynamics. This examination starts with the 1st edition of the API 617 standard published in…

Rotordynamic Design Audits Of AMB Supported Machinery Swanson, E.E., Maslen, E.H., Li, G., Cloud, C.H., 2008 Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Turbomachinery Symposium, Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Abstract Active Magnetic Bearings (AMBs) are a mature bearing technology that is being applied to many new turbomachines. They have become the bearing of choice…