O desenvolvimento de componentes para veículos comerciais geralmente é uma tarefa bastante complexa, principalmente quando se trata de transporte pesado, considerando que são necessários uma série de simulações e diversos testes em campo, em vários tipos de pavimento e condição de carga, onde muitas vezes é necessário rodar milhares de quilômetros para validar um único componente ou subsistema. Este trabalho apresenta uma série de testes realizados com um implemento rodoviário em diferentes tipos de pavimento e condições de carga, bem como o tratamento e avaliação dos dados coletados, com o objetivo de caracterizar o comportamento do chassi do implemento rodoviário nas diferentes aplicações através de suas densidades espectrais. Através de uma avaliação de dados do transporte rodoviário nacional foi definida uma combinação veicular de carga (CVC) que, instrumentada em toda sua extensão longitudinal, foi submetida a uma série de pavimentos como estrada não pavimentada, rodovia pavimentada, pista de buracos, paralelepípedos, seixo rolado, costeletas, pista de torção e lombada, a fim de coletar os níveis de aceleração vertical e frequências de vibração aos quais a massa suspensa do implemento rodoviário é submetida. Para a aplicação em questão, foi definida a faixa de frequência de interesse entre zero e 30Hz. Os sinais foram tratados através de um filtro Butterworth passa-baixa com frequência ótima de corte igual a 45Hz e, por fim, foram geradas PSDs utilizando função janela de Hanning com sobreposição de 50%. Os resultados do trabalho permitiram a diferenciação das aplicações com maior clareza, com vibrações mais críticas na condição vazio entre 2,5Hz e 10Hz, para massa suspensa e na condição carregada entre 9Hz e 14Hz, para massa não suspensa. / Commercial vehicle parts development usually is a quite complex task, mainly for heavy cargo transportation, considering that are necessary several analysis and durability tests, in different roads and load conditions, that commonly requires thousands of kilometers to approve a single component or subsystem. This work presents a truck trailer test series using different pavement types and load conditions, as well as data processing and evaluation, aiming to describe the truck trailer chassis behavior on different applications through its spectral density. Based on the Brazilian road transport data, a load vehicle combination was chosen, instrumented throughout its length and submitted to different pavements as an offroad pavement, highway road pavement, pot holes, Belgian blocks, cobblestones, washboard, body twist track and a single bump track, seeking information regarding to the truck trailer sprung mass vertical acceleration and vibration frequencies. For the application studied, an interest frequency band was defined between zero and 30Hz. The acceleration data was processed using a Butterworth low pass filter with an optimal cutoff frequency at 45Hz and, finally, power spectral densities were created using Hanning window function and 50% as overlap value. The results allowed a clearer detailing of the application efforts, once the most critical sprung mass vibrations occurs at empty condition and are between 2,5Hz and 10Hz, and the most critical unsprung mass vibrations occurs at loaded condition and are between 9Hz and 14Hz.

Elevados níveis de vibração podem levar um equipamento à fadiga, e consequente quebra, podendo causar perdas de produção, problemas de fornecimento de material ou de serviço. Este trabalho desenvolveu um sistema para acionamento, aquisição e análise de uma bancada de ensaio de vibração em máquinas rotativas. O sistema proposto é composto por uma bancada com um motor fixo a uma plataforma, cujo eixo está acoplado a um rotor que pode sofrer desbalanceamento, através de inserção de massas. A rotação do eixo do motor é mensurada por um sensor indutivo, a vibração no mancal é monitorada por um acelerômetro. Para controle de acionamento e aquisição de dados foi utilizado o software LabVIEW. Esta bancada foi desenvolvida com a finalidade de estudar o comportamento dinâmico do rotor que está apoiado em mancais de rolamento. A estrutura montada permite simulação de falhas. Neste trabalho foi proposto o desbalanceamento de massa em um único plano, que é classificado como desbalanceamento estático. Este tipo de simulação foi escolhido também, visto que o rotor só possui um plano para desbalanceamento. Foram realizados experimentos que possibilitaram a detecção das falhas através do nível de vibração medido pelo acelerômetro e através da frequência do sinal de vibração foi comprovado que a amplitude significativa do espectro ocorre na frequência de rotação do equipamento, quando se trata de desbalanceamento. A bancada foi desenvolvida para ser utilizada no Laboratório de Vibrações Mecânicas da Universidade de Taubaté, porém as técnicas desenvolvidas podem ter aplicabilidade no ramo industrial, principalmente em manutenção preditiva. / High levels of vibration equipment can lead to fatigue and consequent breakage, may cause production losses, problems of supply of equipment or service. This study developed a system for triggering, acquisition and analysis of a bench test vibration in rotating machines. The proposed system consists of a bench with a motor fixed to a platform whose shaft is coupled to a rotor imbalance can suffer through insertion of mass. The rotation of the motor shaft is measured by an inductive sensor, vibration in the bearing is monitored by an accelerometer. To drive control and data acquisition software was used LabVIEW. This bench was developed in order to study the dynamic behavior of the rotor that is supported by ball bearings. The assembled structure allows fault simulation. This work proposes the unbalance mass in a single plane, which is classified as static unbalance. Such simulation was also chosen since the rotor has only one plan for unbalance. Experiments were performed which allowed the detection of faults through the vibration level measured by the accelerometer and by the frequency of the vibration signal has been proven that the amplitude of the spectrum of significant vibration occurs in the rotation frequency of the machine when it comes to unbalance. The bench has been developed for use in Mechanical Vibration Laboratory at the University of Taubate, but the techniques developed may have applicability in the industrial sector, especially in predictive maintenance.

This thesis encompasses measuring and rating of vibrations in electric machines. The theoretical part begins with a short description of possible causes of vibrations, which is followed by a discussion about what consequences the vibrational effects have on electrical devices. Then there is a description of available vibration sensors. The bigger part is then devoted to analysis of vibratory signal in both time and frequency domains. The practical part is divided into two chapters. The first one describes laboratory demonstration of control drive with DC motor, which is expanded by measurement of vibrations. The second chapter deals with measurement and analysis of said vibrations in the demonstration.

Early failure detection has been an integral part of condition monitoring of critical systems, such as wind turbines and helicopter rotor drivetrains. An unexplored application of early failure detection is fatigue testing of driveline components. On many occasions, driveline components fail catastrophically, leaving no evidence of the root cause of failure and causing extensive damage to test equipment. This can be prevented by detecting failure in its early stages. Test specimen would be preserved, enabling correlation of test results with design predictions. In this thesis, a method for early failure detection of gear fatigue is proposed. The gears in questions are parts of driveline components undergoing fatigue tests. The proposed method includes generation of an autoregressive model from a healthy, time synchronously averaged vibration signal. The parameters of the generated model are then used to construct a filter, which predicts deviations from the healthy signal. The output of this filter is then processed to detect failure. Vibration data from four run to failure tests were analysed. While the proposed method detected failure in all four data sets, performance was better in tests carried out at high torque and low speed in comparison to tests carried out under low torque and high speeds. Finally, potential improvements in the proposed method to increase its effectiveness are proposed. / “Early Failure Detection” (tidig detektion av utmattningsbrott) har länge varit en viktig del av tillståndsövervakning av kritiska system, som till exempel vindkraftverk och drivsystem för rotorblad på helikoptrar. Ett mindre utforskat område av “Early Failure Detection” är utmattningstestning av komponenter för transmissionssystem. Ofta går komponenterna sönder på ett sådant sätt att grundorsaken till haveriet inte går att fastställa, och som riskerar att skada testriggarna. Detta kan förebyggas om haveriet kan upptäckas i ett tidigt skede innan komponenten gar sönder helt och hållet. Testobjeket kan då bevaras, vilket ger möjligheter att korrelera testresultatet till utmattningsberäkningar av konstruktionen.  I den här uppsatsen föreslås en metod för Early Failure Detection för drevsatser i växlar. Växlarna ingår i transmissionssystem som utmattningsprovas. Den föreslagna metoden innebär att en autoreggresiv modell skapas från en tids-synkron medelvärdesbildning på den uppmätta signalen för den oförstärda komponenten. Parametrarna från den modellen används sedan för att skapa ett filter som predikterar avvikelser mot den oförstörda komponenten. Slutligen behandlas utsignalen fran det filteret för att upptäcka utmattningsskador pa drevsatsen i växeln.  Vibrationsdata fran fyra utmattningsprov har analyserats. I samtliga prov har provet körts tills brott har konstaterats. Utmattningsskador kunde konstateras tidigt, innan brottet inträffade, i tre av de fyra fallen. Slutligen föreslås förslag på utveckling av den använda metoden for att förbättra predikteringarna.

In this thesis, the development of a structure for use in an educational CubeSat kit is explored. The potential uses of this kit include augmenting existing curricula with aspects of hands on learning, developing new ways of training students on proper space systems engineering practices, and overall contributing to academic capacity building at Cal Poly and its collaborators. The design improves on existing CubeSat kit structures by increasing accessibility to internal components by implementing a modular backplane system, as well as adding the ability to be environmentally tested. Manufacturing of the structure is completed with both additive (Fused Deposition Modeling with ABS polymer and Selective Laser Melting with AlSi10Mg metal) and subtractive (milling with Al-6061) technologies. Modal, harmonic, and random vibration analyses and tests are done to ensure the structure passes vibration testing qualification loads, as outlined by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s General Environmental Standards. Successful testing of the structure, defined as deforming less than 0.5 millimeters and maintaining a factor of safety above 2, is achieved with all materials of interest. Thus, the structure becomes the first publicly available CubeSat kit designed to survive environmental testing. Achieving this goal with a structure made of the cheap, widely available material ABS showcases the potential usability of 3D-printed polymers in CubeSat structures.

One of two project reports. Part A can be found at: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/17932 / Time-averaged holographic interferometry is applied to the study of the resonance mode structures of an electromagnetic and a piezoelectric high frequency loud-speaker. Vibrational amplitude measurements were made using the simple concept of the holo-diagram. The vibrational amplitude sensitivity range was from 0.1 µm to 0.9 µm, which is an ideal range since the speaker vibrational amplitudes were always below 0.8 µm. Application of the technique to non-destructive speaker quality testing and optimum speaker design is also discussed in the report. / Thesis / Master of Engineering (ME)

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An analytical model of cracked composite beams vibrating in coupled bending-torsion is developed. The beam is made of fiber-reinforced composite with fiber angles in each ply aligned in the same direction. The crack is assumed open. The local flexibility concept is implemented to model the open crack and the associated compliance matrix is derived. The crack introduces additional boundary conditions at the crack location and these effects in conjunction with those of material properties are investigated. Free vibration analysis of the cracked composite beam is presented. The results indicate that variation of natural frequencies in the presence of a crack is affected by the crack ratio and location, as well as the fiber orientation. In particular, the variation pattern is different as the magnitude of bending-torsion coupling changes due to different fiber angles. When bending and torsional modes are essentially decoupled at a certain fiber angle if there is no crack, the crack introduces coupling to the initially uncoupled bending and torsion. Based on the crack model, aeroelastic characteristics of an unswept composite wing with an edge crack are investigated. The cracked composite wing is modeled by a cracked composite cantilever and the inertia coupling terms are included in the model. An approximate solution on critical flutter and divergence speeds is obtained by Galerkin's method in which the fundamental mode shapes of the cracked wing model in free vibration are used. It is shown that the critical divergence/flutter speed is affected by the elastic axis location, the inertia axis location, fiber angles, and the crack ratio and location. Moreover, model-based crack detection (size and location) by changes in natural frequencies is addressed. The Cawley-Adams criterion is implemented and a new strategy in grouping frequencies is proposed to reduce the probability of measurement errors. Finally, sensitivity of natural frequencies to model parameter uncertainties is investigated. Uncertainties are modeled by information-gap theory and represented with a collection of nested sets. Five model parameters that may have larger uncertainties are selected in the analysis, and the frequency sensitivities to uncertainties in the five model parameters are compared in terms of two immunity functions. / Ph. D.

Dans les dernières décennies, la surveillance vibratoire des machines tournantes a acquis un intérêt particulier fournissant une aide efficace pour la maintenance dans l'industrie. Aujourd'hui, de nombreuses techniques efficaces sont bien établies, ancrées sur des outils puissants offerts notamment par la théorie des processus cyclostationnaires. Cependant, toutes ces techniques reposent sur l'hypothèse d’un régime de fonctionnement (c.à.d. vitesse et/ou charge) constant ou éventuellement fluctuant d’une façon stationnaire. Malheureusement, la plupart des machines surveillées dans l'industrie opèrent sous des régimes non stationnaires afin de remplir les tâches pour lesquelles elles ont été conçues. Dans ce cas, ces techniques ne parviennent pas à analyser les signaux vibratoires produits. Ce problème a occupé la communauté scientifique dans la dernière décennie et des techniques sophistiquées de traitement du signal ont été conçues pour faire face à la variabilité du régime. Mais ces tentatives restent limitées, dispersées et généralement peu soutenues par un cadre théorique. Le principal objectif de cette thèse est de combler partiellement cette lacune sur la base d'une formalisation théorique du sujet et d’un développement systématique de nouveaux outils de traitement du signal. Dans ce travail, la non-stationnarité du régime est limitée à celle de la vitesse— c.à.d. vitesse variable et charge constante— supposée connue a priori. Afin d'atteindre cet objectif, la méthodologie adoptée consiste à étendre le cadre cyclostationnaire avec ses outils dédiés. Nous avons élaboré cette stratégie en distinguant deux types de signatures. Le premier type comprend des signaux déterministes connus comme cyclostationnaires au premier ordre. La solution proposée consiste à généraliser la classe cyclostationnaire au premier ordre à la classe cyclo-non-stationnaire au premier ordre qui comprend des signaux déterministes en vitesse variable. Le second type comprend des signaux aléatoires périodiquement corrélés connus comme cyclostationnaires au deuxième ordre. Trois visions différentes mais complémentaires ont été proposées pour traiter les variations induites par la non-stationnarité de la vitesse de fonctionnement. La première adopte une approche cyclostationnaire angle\temps, la seconde une solution basée sur l'enveloppe et la troisième une approche cyclo-non-stationnaire (au second ordre). De nombreux outils ont été conçus dont les performances ont été testées avec succès sur des signaux vibratoires réels et simulés. / In the last decades, vibration-based condition monitoring of rotating machine has gained special interest providing an efficient aid for maintenance in the industry. Nowadays, many efficient techniques are well-established, rooted on powerful tools offered in particular by the theory of cyclostationary processes. However, all these techniques rely on the assump-tion of constant— or possibly fluctuating but stationary— operating regime (i.e. speed and/or load). Unfortunately, most monitored machines used in the industry operate under nonstationary regimes in order to fulfill the task for which they have been designed. In this case, these techniques fail in analyzing the produced vibration signals. This issue, therefore, has occupied the scientific committee in the last decade and some sophisticated signal processing techniques have been conceived to deal with regime variability. But these works remain limited, dispersed and generally not supported by theoretical frameworks. The principal goal of this thesis is to partially fill in this gap on the basis of a theoretical formalization of the subject and a systematic development of new dedicated signal processing tools. In this work, the nonstationarity of the regime is confined to that of the speed— i.e. variable speed and constant load, assumed to be known a priori. In order to reach this goal, the adopted methodology consists in extending the cyclostationary framework together with its dedicated tools. We have elaborated this strategy by distinguishing two types of signatures. The first type includes deterministic waveforms known as first-order cyclostationary. The proposed solution consists in generalizing the first-order cyclostationary class to the more general first-order cyclo-non-stationary class which enfolds speed-varying deterministic signals. The second type includes random periodically-correlated waveforms known as second-order cyclostationary. Three different but complementary visions have been proposed to deal with the changes induced by the nonstationarity of the operating speed. The first one adopts an angle\time cyclostationary approach, the second one adopts an envelope-based solution and the third one adopts a (second-order) cyclo-non-stationary approach. Many tools have been conceived whose performances have been successfully tested on simulated and real vibration signals.

In the trends of technical improvements and automatization is it important for companies to keep up with the developments to be competitive on the market. SwePart Transmissions AB is a company that manufacture and develop gearboxes for the currently growing robot arms industry and the main task with this study is to investigate how to apply condition based monitoring on a new gearbox from the company. The work considers vibration analysis and testing new ideas in the oil analysis field. The tests that were performed are based on measuring the difference in impedance or magnetic field due to the increasement of wear. The results of the tests are not clear. This thesis is the beginning of a big project and therefore lies the value of this work in the new ideas and suggestions for further work.