Vibration Analysis
Level 3
Advanced
For candidates who are committed to reliability through condition monitoring, and who have at least two years vibration analysis experience. It is ideal for those who lead a vibration team or take a pivotal role in diagnosing faults and making final recommendations. This course will give the analyst all of the skills and knowledge necessary to solve all fault conditions, run a successful condition monitoring program and drive a reliability culture.
Course Outline
Principles of vibration
- Very quick review of fundamentals
- Waveform, spectrum, phase, vectors and orbits
- Signals: transients, pulses, modulation, beating, sum/difference
- Force, response, damping, and stiffness
- Cepstrum analysis
Data acquisition
- Planning routes, test locations and programs
Signal processing
- Sampling, resolution, Fmax, averaging, windowing, dynamic range, signal-to-noise ratio
- A/D conversion: constant and variable sampling rate
Vibration analysis
- Spectral, time waveform and envelope analysis
Equipment testing and diagnostics
- Impact testing (bump tests)
- Phase analysis
- Transient analysis
- Operating deflection shape analysis
- Introduction to modal analysis
- Cross channel measurements
Fault analysis in detail
- Natural frequencies and resonances
- Imbalance, eccentricity and bent shaft
- Misalignment, cocked bearing and soft foot
- Mechanical looseness
- Rolling element bearing analysis
- Analysis of turbo-machinery and sleeve bearings
- Analysis of AC, DC and variable frequency drives
- Analysis of gears and belt driven machines
- Analysis of pumps, compressors and fans
- Lots of case studies and exercises for participants
Corrective action
- Balancing and shaft alignment
- Resonance control, isolation and damping
Successful condition monitoring program
- Alarms, reports, management, finances
Acceptance testing and ISO standards
Course Materials
Learning Outcome
Certification (Optional)
Your Instructors
Clyde Volpe
Principal
Vibration Institute of Australia
Pioneer in transforming Condition Monitoring to Reliability Improvement. Driving change with vibration analysis & oil analysis for enhanced industry reliability. Clyde has developed courses for quick learning.
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