Making sense of babbitt bearing failure analysis
Starting a babbitt bearing failure analysis usually seems like being a detective at a crime scene where the main suspect is really a set of invisible forces a person can't quite discover. When a high-speed turbine or a massive compressor suddenly decides to give up, the bearing will be often the initial thing people stage their fingers in. But here's the particular thing: the bearing is rarely the particular "criminal. " More often than not, it's just the victim of no matter what else is going wrong in the machine. ...