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Nowadays, condition monitoring and fault diagnosis are considered as one of the most important maintenance and diagnosis strategies in state-of-the-art industries. Serious damage such as machine and coupled equipment failure, machine failure in a neighborhood in case of severe damage, and production loss will be resulted in late fault detection. One of the critical information in condition monitoring is the machine's rotating speed. In many cases of condition monitoring, the rotating speed, and the machine's technical information (such as bearing characteristic frequency )is not available. In this study, a ruled-base model and an intelligent model are developed for machine running speed... 

Vibration signals have been used for fault diagnosis frequently. These signals are captured using sensors, which are mounted on different locations of the equipment. Using data captured from different locations of the equipment, will result in roubustness of the fault diagnosis model. But sometimes the predictions of sensors mounted on different locations, happen to conflict. These conflicts among sources of information, make it hard to decide about the overal health state of the equipment. In fact, these conflicts causes a kind of uncertainty called epistemic uncertainty. A powerful mathematical framework for managing epistemic uncertainties, is Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. An... 

This study proposes a method to predict the remaining useful life (RUL) of the rolling element bearings (REBs) by forecasting the future trend of the peak of the acceleration signal. It is also employed to determine an appropriate time interval between the measurements of REBs vibration to reduce the error of forecasting and avoid collecting too much data in addition to increasing the reliability. In the first step, in order to achieve better results, the history of the acceleration peak is transformed into a stationary space before using the long short-term memory (LSTM) model to make it normally distributed and stationary. Then, LSTM forecasts the future trend of the stationary time series... 

Screw compressors are rotary positive displacement compressors that utilize a pair of helical lobed rotors in a casing. Part 3 of ISO 10816 does not include Positive displacement compressors. VDI 3836 has more vibration amplitude limitations for this compressor than industrial machines under ISO 10816-3. The screw compressor has no valves; therefore, the location of the suction and discharge ports determines the compressor cycle. This study focuses on the condition monitoring through vibration analysis of screw compressors. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reason for excluding of screw compressors by ISO standard and also to explain the vibration dependence of these... 

The inlet duct is one of the most important components of the waterjet propulsion system, whose hydrodynamic performance is directly related to the capabilities and efficiency of the waterjet propulsion system. In this study, a procedure was proposed to improve the hydrodynamic performance of an inlet duct. According to this proposed procedure, first the basic intake duct geometry of the waterjet propulsion system was prepared using visual programming to simplify the repetition of the design in Rhino design software, and then the numerical analysis of the designed geometry in Star CCM+ commercial software was performed. The simulation results were validated with the results of an... 

One of the challenges in predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of rolling element bearings (REBs) is determining a proper failure threshold (FT). In the literature, the FT is usually assumed to be a constant value of an extracted feature from the vibration signals. In this research, a method was proposed to define the FT of REBs, and the effect of different parameters on the FT was also studied. First, to determine the effective parameters, the variance analysis was applied to the seeded fault dataset of REBs. Afterward, the method based on the principal component analysis (PCA) and the copula models was proposed to estimate the FT. In this method, a proper feature for the FT and a... 

Structural health monitoring is a process that aims to provide accurate and immediate information about the condition and performance of the structure. Processed is a very important eld in the eld of civil, aerospace and marine engineering, because the use of structural health monitoring allows us to increase human and environmental safety while reducing economic damage. e main component of the health monitoring process is the real-time reconstruction of displacement and three-dimensional stress in the structure using a network of strain gauges and other sensors. e inverse nite element method is a relatively new method and stress measurement that has been shown to be fast and accurate for... 

Rolling element bearings (REBs) are one of the most critical components in rotating ma-chines. Failure of these components may lead to fatal and costly breakdowns in rotating machinery. Therefore, it is significant to detect faults at early stage accurately. The pur-pose of this study is to compare vibration analysis and shock pulse method (SPM) in early detection of fault and remaining useful life prediction of REBs. To the aim, a set of ac-celerated life tests on REBs was planned. Vibration and shock pulse values accelerated life tests of the REBs were simultaneously measured from the moment of start to the end of the failure by two vibration and shock pulse sensors and their changes were... 

Pumps are widely used in oil and gas industry. Therefore condition monitoring for this type of equipment is very important. The motor current signature analysis (MCSA) technique as one of the condition monitoring techniques is very effective in the industry, but it is less used in industry. All conventional methods require additional sensors to be installed in the system; current signature analysis as a sensorless method can reduce the cost of condition monitoring. In this study, motor current signature analysis technique was used to diagnosis a centrifugal pump with a capacity of 187 kW from the refinery industry. The impeller wearing ring clearance problem has been investigated. This... 

Estimating the remaining useful life (RUL) of critical assets is an essential task in system health management. It also has a crucial role in the optimization of maintenance scheduling and decision making about the future of the asset. On the other hand, since the rolling element bearings are widely used in the rotating machinery, estimation of their RUL is considered as remarkable progress in improving the reliability of the whole system. In this way, various models have been introduced to predict the RUL of rolling element bearings, which their proper functionality is affected by the underlying assumptions in the model structure. Because of the presence of several uncertainties and... 

In this research, an artificial intelligence (AI) based model and a physics-based model have individually employed for prognostics of rolling element bearing (REB) under constant operating condition. Then a combination of physics-based models and data-driven model (Hybrid model) has been developed for remaining useful life (RUL) prediction of rolling element bearing (REB) under the load de-rating condition. The well-known crack propagation model Paris’ law has been employed to develop a physics-based model which can describe the degradation rate of the REB when the applying load is changed. To this aim, the elastic solution of the contact mechanics and Hertz stress between curved surfaces is... 

Many offshore platforms as TLP, Semi-submersible and Spar are used for oil extraction and energy harvesting. One of the challenges of these structures is related to vibrations due to the environmental sea waves and wind loads. The optimal way for the response reduction of an offshore structure in heave direction is the installing of thin heave plate. The heave plate induces vortex shedding and pressure drop on fluid flow downstream. Diameter difference of heave plates in an array can improve the obtained damping and added mass for a given small spacing between plates, which has not been studied up to now. Hence, in the present thesis it was observed that converting of the uniform to... 

Ball bearings diagnosis increases the efficiency and reliability of industrial machinery. Data driven is one of the most effective and highly applicable method in this field. In this way, it is usually assumed that the sensor is mounted on the bearing housing, but in many cases there is no direct access to some of the machine bearings, and in such cases, the bearing can not be monitored and checked. In this project, with simplifications in order to inaccessible bearings diagnostic, a shaft with several supports is considered. The purpose of this project is to diagnose the bearing by the sensors located on the other bearing's housing. In order to achieve this goal, continuous wavelet... 

Laminated composite beams are being widely used in engineering applications, including aerospace and automobile where the structures are highly subjected to non-deterministic random loadings, requiring a reliable technique to ensure the stability of structure during operation. A Novel N-layer model of layerwise theory (LWT) for laminated composite beams incorporated with magnetorheological fluid (MR-laminated beams) is developed. In addition, a finite element model of tapered laminated composite beams incorporated with magnetorheological fluid (MR-tapered beam) based on layerwise theory is developed. The dynamic response of the present model for uniform and tapered beams have been compared... 

Predicting the probability distribution of asset remaining useful life is an essential procedure in the intelligent maintenance. It also plays an important role in improving system reliability and optimizing further decisions. The main concern of this project is to estimate the probability distribution of rolling element bearing remaining useful life. For this purpose, the bearing degradation process is modeled through the statistical models, considering the major variabilities in the degradation process. The models parameters are updated, once a new measurement of the equipment is available. Then, the constructed model is utilized in order to predict the probabitity distribution of... 

In this thesis, we investigate interactions of a double-gyre in the North Atlantic and the earth’s Chandler wobble using a single-layer ocean model based on depth-averaged Navier-Stokes equations and multiple-scale spectral solutions to it. The overall transfers of energy and angular momentum from the double-gyre to the Chandler wobble are used to calibrate the turbulence parameters of the idealized ocean model and Smagorinsky eddy viscosity is used to estimate turbulent diffusion terms. Our model is tested against a multilayer quasi-geostrophic ocean model in turbulent regime, and base states used in parameter identification are obtained from mesoscale eddy resolving numerical simulations.... 

The main objective of this research is to predict the life of a bearing that works in variable speed working condition. In this project, two series of experiments were conducted to investigate the vibration of the bearings. In the first series of experiments, multiple imperfections have been created on parts of the bearing that are susceptible including the inner ring, the outer ring and the balls. The results of this test have been used to study the importance of speed compared to other parameters in increasing the vibration levels of the bearing. In addition, the results of this experiment have been used as inputs to a neural network. This neural network is trained to classify bearing... 

Rotary machines including gas turbines have been widely used in many industries like gas reducing pressure stations and power plants. Blades are important components of gas turbines which are subjected to failure due to different kind of damages like crack occurrence. There are various reasons for crack occurrence and its propagation in blades. Presence of crack in the blades may lead to major failure, which in turn, result in emergency shutdown of the system. Therefore condition monitoring is employed to check the possibility of failures. In recent years, condition monitoring techniques have been developed to prevent unnecessary shutdown of the systems. The present thesis aims to... 

Magnetorheological (MR) materials show variations in their rheological properties when subjected to varying magnetic fields. They have quick time response, in the order of milliseconds, and thus are potentially applicable to structures and devices when a tunable system response is required. When integrated with a structural system, they can produce higher variations in the dynamic response of the structure. In this thesis, vibration behavior of laminated-composite beam with MR Fluid is investigated.In most studies, shear strain across the thickness of MR layer has been considered as a constant value which does not precisely describe the actual shear strain field. Shear modulus of MR layer in... 

Rotary equipment are being used in many industries over a wide range of applications, such as gas turbine. Due to the nature of the operating conditions, gas turbines are subjected to variety of damages especially crack propagation of a blade. The Cracks propagation may lead to catastrophic failure during operation. Therefore, detection of the crack presence and its propagation is very important and may reduce possible significant cost of the whole system failure. The thesis aims to investigate the cracks presence and their propagation effects on vibration of a turbine blade which is located at the National Iranian South Oilfields. First, theoretical study is calculated to validate an...