MSc Reliability Engineering and Asset Management

• Introduction to Condition Monitoring (CM) including Lubricant, thermography and vibration. 
• Introduction to vibration theory to understand machine vibration.
• Instruments details and their selection guidance to meet the requirements.
• Vibration measurement procedure including the concept of anti-aliasing and selection of sampling frequency.
• Signal processing – time domain and frequency domain (spectrum, FRF, etc.), filtering, windowing, envelope analysis, phase analysis, order tracking, orbit plot, etc.
• Theory and experiments on modal testing.
• ODS analysis and rotor balancing.
• Demonstration of a number of industrial case studies linking measurements, data analysis and theory in fault detection & diagnosis, and then solving industrial vibration problems.   
• Use of in-situ vibration tests during machine installation and commissioning, and in solving the vibration problem in the aged machines. 

Give a detailed treatment of the in-situ dynamics characterisation, and detection, possibly location and diagnosis of faults in rotating machinery, using vibration analysis.

• Introduction to Condition Monitoring (CM) including Lubricant, thermography and vibration. 
• Introduction to vibration theory to understand machine vibration.
• Instruments details and their selection guidance to meet the requirements.
• Vibration measurement procedure including the concept of anti-aliasing and selection of sampling frequency.
• Signal processing – time domain and frequency domain (spectrum, FRF, etc.), filtering, windowing, envelope analysis, phase analysis, order tracking, orbit plot, etc.
• Theory and experiments on modal testing.
• ODS analysis and rotor balancing.
• Demonstration of a number of industrial case studies linking measurements, data analysis and theory in fault detection & diagnosis, and then solving industrial vibration problems.   
• Use of in-situ vibration tests during machine installation and commissioning, and in solving the vibration problem in the aged machines. 

This unit is taught online via Blackboard with one full day of teaching.

•    Show an understanding of the vibration monitoring of rotating machines and explain its benefits in improving plant maintenance and reliability.

•    Select, apply and appraise different vibration instruments and  analysis approaches required for the vibration-based monitoring.

•    Analyse the data to identify the early defect(s) in machines, and possibly their root causes.

•    Able to develop vibration-based condition monitoring (VCM) system for any machine.

Provided online via the Blackboard system.

Jyoti K. Sinha, Vibration Analysis, Instruments and Signal Processing, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2014.

Wowk, Victor, Machinery Vibration Measurement and Analysis, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1991.

ISO 13373-1 Condition monitoring and diagnostics of machines Vibration condition monitoring of machines Part 1: Procedures for vibration condition monitoring of machines.

Thomson, W. T., Dahleh, M. D., Theory of Vibrations With Applications 
(Prentice-Hall)