GEG7054

Machine condition monitoring and fault diagnosis

What CM is and its benefits. Techniques: Visual Inspection techniques. Non-Destructive Testing. Analysis techniques for wear debris/contaminants in lubricants; CM of electrical machines. Performance analysis and obtaining data; application to pumps, boilers, heat exchanges, steam turbines, air compressors. Vibration analysis: overall level, assessment of severity, frequency analysis, phase angle. Appreciation of balancing methods. Getting the condition monitoring program going; justification, resources available to help. Effect of hostile environments on materials and the monitoring of subsequent deterioration: corrosion, wet and dry. Oxidation, fouling, creep, fatigue. Monitoring. Prediction of remaining life. Fault diagnosis techniques applied to maintenance activities. Adaptation to civil engineering structures.

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