Abstract: Provided is a thrust bearing assembly including a casing, a supporting ring positioned within said casing, a leverage mechanism housed within said casing, tilting pads for contacting rotor, supporting discs connecting said leverage mechanism with said tilting pads via openings in said casing, wherein the leverage mechanism includes a plurality of first levering plates and an equal number of second levering plates, the first and second levering plates forming an endless overlapping arrangement within said casing, each first levering plate touching at contact surfaces two second levering plates and vice versa, wherein the levering plates are preferably substantially arcuate-shaped, and wherein at least all first levering plates or at least all second levering plates are tiltingly positioned on supporting pins, whereas the levering plate includes a recess with a ball-shaped protrusion within the recess, and the supporting pin includes a ball-shaped socket fitting the ball-shaped protrusion of the levering plate.

Abstract: Provided is a thrust bearing assembly including a casing, a supporting ring positioned within said casing, a leverage mechanism housed within said casing, tilting pads for contacting rotor, supporting discs connecting said leverage mechanism with said tilting pads via openings in said casing, wherein the leverage mechanism includes a plurality of first levering plates and an equal number of second levering plates, the first and second levering plates forming an endless overlapping arrangement within said casing, each first levering plate touching at contact surfaces two second levering plates and vice versa, wherein the levering plates are preferably substantially arcuate-shaped, and wherein at least all first levering plates or at least all second levering plates are tiltingly positioned on supporting pins, whereas the levering plate includes a recess with a ball-shaped protrusion within the recess, and the supporting pin includes a ball-shaped socket fitting the ball-shaped protrusion of the levering plate.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining current eccentricity of a rotating rotor which is equipped with a phase marker scanned at constant speed of rotation up to 500 rpm by a sensor of a phase marker at the point of the phase marker, and outside of the phase marker by at least one sensor of relative rotor vibrations, while after digitizing the signals of the sensors, estimates current position of the phasor of the 1st harmonic component of signal of the sensor of relative rotor vibrations in the complex plane, which is subsequently compared to a reference position of the phasor of the 1st harmonic component, which has been determined in advance, whereas the variation vector of the phasors is an image of eccentricity of the rotor. Further, a method of diagnostics of eccentricity of a rotating rotor is based on this method for determining current eccentricity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining current eccentricity of rotating rotor (1) at which is rotor (1) equipped with a phase marker (5) scanned at constant speed of rotation up to 500 rpm by a sensor (50) of phase marker (5) at the point of the phase marker (5), and outside of the phase marker (5) by at least one sensor (3, 30, 4, 40) of relative rotor vibrations, while after digitizing the signals of the sensors (3, 30, 4, 40, 50), is from them estimated current position of phasor of the 1st harmonic component of signal of the sensor (3, 30, 4, 40) of relative rotor vibrations in the complex plane, which is subsequently compared to a reference position of the phasor of the 1st harmonic component of this signal, which has been determined in advance, whereas the variation vector of the phasors is an image of eccentricity of the rotor (1). Further on, is the invention related to a method of diagnostics of eccentricity of rotating rotor (1) based on this method for determining current eccentricity.