Useful fluid machinery web links evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists are listed below:
All about pumps
Free glossary of pumps taken from the commercial tutorial All About Pumps by Russell D Hoffman. It contains over 60 definitions, complete with animated images.
American Gear Manufacturers Association
American trade association for manufacturers and user of gears and gearing products The site provides details of AGMA standards and information sheets.
British Compressed Air Society
Representing manufacturers, distributors and users of compressors, vacuum pumps, pneumatic tools and allied products
British Fluid Power Association
Serving the hydraulics and pneumatics industry
British Pump Manufacturers Association
Trade association representing the interests of UK suppliers of liquid pumps and pumping equipment.
British Valve and Actuator Association
Represents the interests of the British valve and actuator industry
CFD Review
News, support and information clearinghouse for the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) community
Efluids
A specialty web information resource for the areas of flow engineering, fluid mechanics research, education and directly related topics
Equipment Condition Monitoring Site
David Stevens, Consultant Vibration Engineer at AV Technology Ltd homepage
It is designed as a resource for process, maintenance and condition monitoring engineers. It provides vibration analysis and thermal imaging case studies.
How Stuff Works
Explanations of how the world actually works
Hydraulic Institute
American association of pump industry manufacturers
IMechE Fluid Machinery Group
Information on events
International Fluid Power Society
Organisation for fluid power and related motion control professionals
Machine Design
Technical information on machine design
Manufacturing Technologies Association
UK trade association representing manufacturers of new machine tools/manufacturing technology
NASA Ames/Stanford University - Center for Turbulence Research
Research consortium for fundamental study of turbulent flows jointly operated by Stanford University and NASA
Society for Experimental Mechanics
US society with the objective of furthering knowledge of stress and strain
Provides access to an abstract database
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