Liquid Rocket Engine Turbopump Bearings

Aerojet, Rocketdyne, North American Rockwell, Pratt and Whitney, United Aircraft, and NASA Lewis Research Center scientists and engineers

The 80-plus pages includes explanations for design and use of every kind of turbopump bearing.  You'll find complete, comprehensive, state-of-the-art information and data for:

• Bearing assembly design
  

• Load capability
• Speed capability
• Stiffness
• Misalignment tolerance
• Bore
• Internal clearance
• Cooling
• Bearing mounting
• Bearing materials
• Testing

• Bearing component design

• Rolling element design
• Race design
• Cage design

There are also many detailed engineering drawings, figures, illustrations, and tables to support the text--and a thick appendix.  Here is a small sampling of the graphics (shown at much lower resolution, and smaller size, than in the real book):
 

Typical engineering drawings (much smaller than in book)

This fine handbook will provide solid information for everyone who designs, builds, tests, or uses serious liquid propellant rocket, jet engines, racing cars, or racing boats.  It's the official NASA valve component design guide, full of scientific data, rocketry information, and military missile lore, providing data on all types of liquid rocket valves.  And it's the ideal text for "amateur" experimental rocket scientists.  Even though it's oriented toward "grand" rockets and spacecraft systems--like Saturn, and the Apollo Lunar lander--the information applies as well to "backyard" homebuilt liquid and monopropellant rockets!  Heads up, all you serious "amateur" rocket scientists and engineers!

It's perhaps the most complete and comprehensive book ever written about the theoretical and practical engineering design of liquid rocket turbopump bearings.  Packed with accurate information, it's an exceptional reference resource for the professional (and serious “amateur”) rocket scientist, engineer, technician, and experimenter.

Plus you'll find pages of technical references, a glossary of arcane symbols and definitions used in bearing design ... and MUCH more not mentioned here!

Very hard to find and now out-of-print, this new limited edition has been republished by the Rocket Science Institute.  It's printed with a high-resolution laser printer (not photocopied) on high-quality, bright-white, acid-free paper for years of reference use.  84 pages, large and easy-to-read 11" x 8-1/2" size.   $18.95

 

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