Handbook

This course builds upon the acquired knowledge of an introductory course in vibrations (such as MMAN2300) where you will have studied oscillatory systems under a number of simplifying assumptions – sinusoidal forcing, constant coefficients, simple boundary conditions, etc. In this course, you will examine more complex systems and excitations. As such, you will be exposed to new techniques for seeing, measuring, thinking about, analysing and designing oscillatory systems. These analytical and computational tools will be applied to the challenging and critical application of machine condition monitoring. Vibration-based condition monitoring is a large and expanding field of engineering research and application, which allows massive safety improvements and economic advantages in almost every industry.

The following assumed knowledge is expected for students undertaking this course: MATH2019 and MMAN2300.

Areas of study include: free and forced responses of single degree-of-freedom spring-mass-damper systems; harmonic analysis; linear vibrations of multi-degree-of-freedom systems, normal modes; analysis of continuous systems, longitudinal/torsional vibration of bars and rods, bending vibration of beams; vibration measuring instruments; experimental vibration analysis; typical sources of vibration in machines; modal analysis; vibration testing; typical machine and machine component faults and corresponding vibration signatures; diagnostic procedures and related signal processing techniques.