| Base plates
must be designed with sufficient rigidity to allow the pump and motor shafts to accept the
loads without resulting in undue stress, deflection or vibration. This avoids premature
wear on the coupling, bearings and mechanical seals and avoids early failure of the
equipment. By utilizing advanced Finite Element Analysis and design, a modern state of the
art base plate can be provided. When compared against
other styles of base plates commoningly found on the market today, the VSX welded steel
baseplate provides superior base stress and frequency capbilities, designed in accordance
to ANSI/H.I. 1.3-2000.
• Typical
rolled-channel base: the maximum amount of base plate stress reaches 41600 PSI.
• Typical fabricated-rail base: the maximum amount of base plate
design stress reaches 28700 PSI.
• VSX structural-steel base plate: the maximum amount of base
stress reaches 22900 PSI. |
