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Career Advice – Military Careers Have Good Benefits

Giving career advice is never easy, but it is often needed. The advice given sometimes is not well taken, people don’t really want to know the truth, people don’t really want to change, and people really do fear for the situations and scenarios beyond their control. Not long ago, a middle manager of a fairly large Corporation came to me and asked me what he should do because he needs to feed his family, he has been laid off and now he’s worried about his home being foreclosed on.

He got out of the military about eight years ago, and now has nowhere to turn.

When discussing this with him, I asked him; “Why don’t you go back into the military and sign up for another 4 to 8 years?” Amazingly enough, he had not considered this, in fact, he felt as if he was done with the military, that he had given his service, and that he no longer owed the nation any more of his life.

Well, that is one way to look at it, and from his perspective and point of view he may be correct.

However, if the military is willing to return the favor for his past service and allow him to serve for another four years until the economy is back where it should be, then this could be an excellent solution.

Turns out, he went down and talked with some folks, signed up for another four years, and will receive training which could help him get a job after he serves some more. The military is looking for a few strong good men, they always are. And since he was one of them, that was my career advice. Perhaps you should consider this.

Sabbatical – Career Builder Or Career Damper
A novel vibration damper concept for use in high-speed rotating machinery has been conceived and evaluated. The novel concept is coming as a complementary damping mean to any kind of the existing rotor system stability source on the machine.

Unlike other development in this field that includes just one damping principle, this approach is based on two principles mixed into the same unit: i) the principle of a dynamic vibration absorber and ii) the principle of a “stick” phenomenon that appears in dry-friction between two surfaces in a each other relative motion.

Therefore, in principal, the damper is a bearing-carrier that realize improving of the rotor dynamics: 1) by tuning the dynamic features of the damper (mass, stiffness) to the rotor features – resulting a restoring force and 2) by dissipating the rotor energy using a predetermined “stick” friction – that increases efficiency and enlarges the action area. An above depicted bearing-carrier vibration damper was specially designed to be proper for testing on the Bently Nevada Rotor-Kit. The experimental evidence proved the feasibility of the concept and quantified the damping effect showing large reduction in pick vibration at the critical speeds as well as in the magnitude of the resultant forces transmitted from the rotor to the stator.

Conclusions

A bearing-carrier vibration damper holds out the following benefits:

- provides a soft running to the rotor and implicitly to the machinery;
- sets rotor apart from the external mechanical transmitted perturbations;
- is independent of the running agent sources;
- is complementary to any kind of damping;
- is suitable to be used with any kind of rotor bearing system;
- provides certain self-alignment capability; supports high temperature; constructively is very simple.

Damper, vibrations, high-speed machinery, rotor, dynamic stability, dynamic absorber, balance, imbalance, critic speed, “stick” (wearless dry-friction), bearing-carrier, and development.