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Glossary

Our glossary provides you with a quick overview of important balancing technology terms.

This makes it easy for you to keep track of all technical terms and understand the context immediately.

Glossary of balancing technology

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There are 9 names in this directory beginning with the letter R.

Rebalancing

Compensation of small residual imbalances - mostly for the operating condition.

Reference plane

Radial rotor plane to which an unbalance is referred.

Related unbalance

Amount of static unbalance in relation to the mass of the rotor in gmm/kg or µm.

Repeatability

For a balancing machine, a measure of the quality of the unbalance measurement in repeated measurements under the same conditions; evaluation using statistical methods.

Replacement mass

Mass attached to the crank pins of crankshafts to simulate part of the rotating and oscillating masses of the piston/connecting rod assembly during balancing.

Residual imbalance

The unbalance of any kind that remains after balancing.

Rigid rotor

With a rigid rotor, the deformations due to unbalance distribution remain negligible up to the maximum operating speed.

Rotary axis

The straight line around which a rotor is currently rotating.

Rotor

A body that can rotate and usually has pins that are guided in bearings