Current Practices and Trends in Mechanical Failure Prevention. Proceedings of the Meeting of the Mechanical Failures Prevention Group (44th) Held in Virginia Beach, Virginia 3-5 April 1990

Abstract

Contents: The High Cost of Failure of Rotating Equipment, Legal Liability of the Design Engineer, Detection Diagnosis, and Prognosis: BOVATS diagnostic Methodology, Motor Current Signature Analysis(MCSA); Incipient Failure Prediction for Electrical Machines; Self-Learning Prognostic Systems; Techniques to Evaluate the Remaining Useful Lubricant Life of Gas Turbine Engine; On-Line Monitoring of Ferromagnetic Debris Concentration; High Power- Density Reduction Gearbox Lubrication Studies Using Positron Emission Tomography; Impact of Microfiltration on Spectrometric Oil Analysis; Summary of New Techniques to Improve the Ability of Emission Spectroscopy to Detect Large Wear Particles in Lubricating Oils; Remaining Life Assessment of Thermal Power Plant Components Using Fracture Mechanics Approach; Design of Permanent Magnet Biased Magnetic Bearings for a Flexible Rotor, The Effect of Transformation from a Fixed to a Rotating Coordinates System on Excitation Frequency; Pump Problems and Piping Participation (Read and Alleged), DATALERT: An Integrated Machinery Vibration Data Collection and Analysis System Used in Loss Prevention; Acoustic Emission Analysis for Bearing Condition Monitoring, Condition Monitoring of Operating Fluid Film Bearings with Ultrasonic Transducers; Analysis of Crack Tip Blunting, Initiation and Growth of Aluminum SEN Specimens by Moire Interferometry, and Advances in Preventing Premature Failure of PEEK Based Compressor Valve Plates. Symposia. (jhd)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA226670

Entities

People

  • Henry C. Pusey
  • Sallie C. Pusey

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Detectors
  • Materials Testing
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Working
  • Mechanics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transducers
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.
  • Tribology (the study of the boundary interaction between sliding surfaces, lubrication, wear and friction).