Conventional engine balancing process truncates the piston acceleration to form harmonics form for the shaking force; Then using dynamically equivalent two-particle mass system for the connecting rod, the shaking force is balanced by arranging the phase angles of the crank throws. During this process, the shaking torque balancing (about the crank shaft axis) is ignored. Shaking force due to truncated portion of piston acceleration is left unbalanced; and that some phase angle arrangements cannot balance the harmonics of the shaking force. This requires force harmonic balancers. Unbalanced inertial forces generate shaking moment about the transverse axis (normal to crankshaft axis) that remains unbalanced. Shaking moment due to force harmonics for some phase angles also remain unbalanced. They require moment harmonic balancers.
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