Unit 1

Basic Concepts: Machinery failures, basic maintenance strategies, factors influencing maintenance strategies, machine condition monitoring, transducer selection and location, PC interfacing and virtual instrumentation. Vibration signatures of faults in rotating and reciprocating machines; detection and diagnosis of faults.

Unit 2

Instrumentation and Signal Processing: Types of sensors in condition monitoring: vibration, acoustics and noise, acoustic emission, temperature, ultrasonic and infra-red sensors – Signal processing: basic signal and systems concepts, time domain analysis, frequency domain analysis, time-frequency analysis, wavelets and wavelet packets.

Unit 3

1. Balageas D., Fritzen C P. and Guemes A. – ‘Structural Health Monitoring’ – Published by ISTE Ltd., USA – 2006
2. Clarence de Silva – ‘Vibration and Shock Handbook’- CRC Taylor & Francis – 2005

• Collacot – ‘Mechanical Fault Diagnosis and Condition Monitoring’- Chapman – Hall – 1987
• Davies – ‘Handbook of Condition Monitoring – Techniques and Methodology’ – Springer -1998
• Norton M. and Karczub D. – ‘Fundamentals of Noise and Vibration Analysis for Engineers’ – Cambridge University Press – 2003 – 2nd Edition
• Duda R. O., Peter Hart E., and Stork D. E. – ‘Pattern Classification’ – Wiley India – 2007 – 2nd Edition
• Strang G. and Nguyen T. – ‘Wavelets and Filter Banks’ – Wellesley-Cambridge Press -1996