MSc Reliability Engineering and Asset Management / Course details

• 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 and reciprocating 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. 

The course is delivered as 5-full days of teaching on campus and subsequent discussion through the online Blackboard system.

•    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 in person or 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)