Condition monitoring and diagnostic engineering management : proceedings of COMADEM 90, the Second International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, Brunel University, 16-18 July 1990

Front Matter....Pages i-xii Condition Monitoring Today and Tomorrow — An Airline Perspective....Pages 1-7 Condition Monitoring Today and Tomorrow — A Manufacturing Perspective....Pages 8-13 Dynamic Performance of a Hydrostatic Thrust Bearing with An ERFS and Grooved Lands....Pages 14-19 The Use of Stress Wave Sensors for the Diagnosis of Bearing Faults....Pages 20-25 Monitoring of check valves in reciprocating pumps....Pages 26-31 Signature analysis of a gear box of turbine generator set....Pages 32-37 Condition monitoring of wear using acoustic emission techniques....Pages 38-43 The condition monitoring of machine tools....Pages 44-48 Condition monitoring systems for machining applications....Pages 49-55 Tool wear monitoring by the analysis of surface roughness....Pages 56-61 Characterization of the acoustic emission behaviour during quasi static punching tests....Pages 62-67 The determination of cutting tool condition using vibration signals....Pages 68-73 Monitoring tool wear during the turning process....Pages 74-79 Monitoring of a production grinding process....Pages 80-85 The technique of mesh obscuration for debris monitoring — the COULTER LCM II....Pages 86-91 Finding what matters — health monitoring by FCM....Pages 92-97 Grease — a suitable case for condition monitoring....Pages 98-107 Engine monitors for efficient take-Off performance monitors....Pages 108-113 Condition/performance monitoring of internal combustion engine by continuous measurements of crankshaft twist angle....Pages 114-119 Rotating machinery noise and vibration study....Pages 120-125 Vibration analysis as tool for computerised machine monitoring....Pages 126-131 Using a PC based system for machinery transient analysis....Pages 132-141 Condition monitoring of key elements in high speed textile machinery....Pages 142-147 On the monitoring of a high speed mechanical feeder by means of an in-time windowing technique....Pages 148-154 Condition based maintenance....Pages 155-161 Cost effective computer software in maintenance management....Pages 162-168 Condition monitoring based maintenance in practice in a heavy chemical plant....Pages 169-175 Condition monitoring at a continuous coal handling facility....Pages 176-181 Condition-based maintenance in the FMMS environment....Pages 182-196 Predictive maintenance programme for GEN sets and reciprocating MUD pumps of oil fields....Pages 197-202 A case study of the maintenance of Second World War military jeeps in Bhopal: a study in the resourcefulness of the local mechanics....Pages 203-206 Maintenance strategy in the ’90s....Pages 207-211 Risk and waste management in oil field....Pages 212-217 Environmental pollution monitoring in oil exploration and exploitation....Pages 218-224 Comparison of the digraph and FAULTFINDER methods of fault tree synthesis for nested control systems....Pages 225-233 A study on the hierarchal quality control in CIMS....Pages 234-239 An experiment in automation of statistical process control using fuzzy logic....Pages 240-246 Application of syntactic pattern recognition techniques to condition monitoring of machines....Pages 247-252 An engineers’s assistant for balancing of flexible rotors....Pages 253-259 On-line decision making for diagnostic and monitoring purposes....Pages 260-265 Expert systems for quality management in glass container production....Pages 266-274 System-independent approaches to diagnostic knowledge reasoning and representation for mechanical and thermal systems....Pages 275-280 Intellectualization of faults diagnosis of rotating machinery — Expert System....Pages 281-286 Amethyst: an expert system for the diagnosis of rotating machinery....Pages 287-293 Integration of a PC based expert system shell and production line tracking system for failure diagnosis and rework definition....Pages 293-298 An expert system with circulating notice for emergency in underground coal mine....Pages 299-304 Detection of periods of significant activity in noisy signals....Pages 305-310 Application of an expert system on the monitoring of human lungs....Pages 311-316 Intelligent classification in EMG decomposition....Pages 317-325 Octave band revisited — machine condition monitoring using octave band data collectors....Pages 326-342 Tool wear monitoring sensors....Pages 343-348 System detection instrumentation....Pages 349-354 Real-time model and kinematic control of machine tools....Pages 355-360 Digital capacitance displacement measuring instrument....Pages 361-366 Optimisation and diagnosis for numerically controlled maching....Pages 367-372 In process measurements using an opto-electronic probe....Pages 373-378 A new three dimension piezoelectric transducer for diagnostic engineering....Pages 379-383 Improving the prediction of condition using simple sensors....Pages 384-389 A high accuracy test technology used for on-line measurement of abrasion wear in bearings....Pages 390-395 Machine diagnostics using the concepts of resolution ratio and automatic timing....Pages 396-402 Condition assessment and forecasting form plant diagnostic data with parèto model....Pages 403-406 Drift-fault diagnostics using fault-curves fitted to changes in dynamic response....Pages 407-413 Fundamentals of linear time-varying plant for diagnostic engineering....Pages 414-419 An artificial intelligent vision system for inspection and monitoring....Pages 420-425 TEXYS: A real-time picture processing system for on-line quality control....Pages 426-431 Moire photography in engineering measurement....Pages 432-436 Photogrammetry in industry....Pages 437-441 Energy management for conversion in oil rigs....Pages 442-449 Continuing education/training on computerized automation....Pages 450-455 Forecasting the change of operating condition for machinery via fuzzy classification....Pages 455-460 Homosource ANC and its application to the machinery diagnosis....Pages 461-467 The phase information in the rotor vibration behaviour analysis....Pages 468-475 In-situ measurement of cylindricity....Pages 476-482 Three-dimensional component inspection using a profile projector equipped with a fibre optic sensor....Pages 483-488 Back Matter....Pages 489-490