Quantification of Faults in Rotating Machines

Abstract

Over some decades, vibration based condition monitoring has become well accepted and widely used identifying faults in for rotating machines. However the quantification of faults may require a number of experiments to be carried out, which can be time consuming and exorbitant, if not impossible by experiments alone. Experience shows that the combined approach (Experiment and Analysis often Finite Element Analysis) is efficient in quantifying the fault in a much quicker and reliable manner. A few case studies are discussed here to bring out the usefulness of the combined approach.