Overview

Specifications

• Copyright Date: 1991
• Edition: 2nd
• Pages: 497
• Binding: Paperback
• eBook
• File Type: standard pdf ebook
• Print: unlimited
• Copy/Paste: unlimited
• Offline Access: yes
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• Bookmarks: always
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Documents

• Look Inside - Sky Ranch Engine Manual

Table of Contents

• How your engines works
• Continental engine specifications
• Lycoming engine specifications

• Stress and strain
• Fatigue
• Stress flow
• Stress risers
• Surface finish
• Residual stress
• Compressive residual stress
• Autofrettage
• Shot peening
• Nitriding
• Rolled threads
• Tensile residual stress
• Plating
• Bending
• Grinding
• Cold working
• Stress relieving and annealing
• Contact fatigue
• Fretting fatigue
• Cracks and fractures
• Fatigue cracks
• Thermal fatigue fracture
• Unexpected sources of fatigue damage
• Field analysis of fatigue failure
• Torsional failures

• Oil starvation
• Prop strikes
• Stuck valves
• Engine parts
• Engine contaminants
• Camshaft follower failure modes
• Oil analysis
• Oil filter analysis
• Dirt, silica and silicone
• Metal particles - identification
• Inspection of contaminated aircraft oil systems and oil coolers
• Crankcase fretting in Continental engines
• Flow porting and its effect on cylinder head cracks

• Starting and idle
• Take-off
• Climb
• Cruise
• Leaning
• Descent
• Taxing and shutdown

• How engine angle head rocker arm alignment
• Intake guide seals
• Cylinder honing
• Cylinder choke and piston design
• Chrome plate piston ring failures
• Do the rings rotate?
• Piston inspection
• Connecting rod line boring
• Color coding of cylinders

• The function of engine oils
• Cylinder Barrel Wear - Steel Barrel Cylinders
• Cylinder Barrel Wear - Chrome Cylinder Barrels
• Intercooling Effects on cylinder wear
• Greases
• Friction Laws applied to hydrodynamic lubricated surfaces
• Friction Laws as applied to boundary lubrication
• Oil additive supplements

• Age Limit on hoses
• Condition Limit on hoses
• Buna-N rubber and toluene
• Firesleeve those hoses
• The hose mandrel
• Classification of hose defects

• What is a bolt?
• Stress distribution within the bolt
• Stress distribution within the nut
• Equalizing stress distribution
• Paint and broken cylinder studs
• Torque accuracy
• Connecting rods

• What needs to be calibrated
• What does not need to be calibrated
• Calibration interval
• Calibration Reports

• Sixty engine symptoms diagnosed
• Chapter 10 Performance Limits
• Fits and Limits
• Displacement
• Horsepower
• BMEP
• Propeller Load Curve
• Power Curve Construction

• Rotating Balance - rotational motion
• Reciprocating Balance - transnational motion
• Reciprocating Force Analysis
• Torsional Balance
• Balancing the oil film
• Torsional Effects
• Connecting rod balance
• Vibration Isolation
• Gyroscopic couples

Features

• Diagnosing engine failures
• engine operation
• how metal fatigue affects engine life
• torsional engine vibrations and engine balance
• flow porting and its effect on engine performance
• lubrication and wear in your engine
• an engineering approach to cylinder repair
• and more

Version Types

Softcover Book - Printed book with heavyweight cover stock.

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