Machinery Condition Monitoring ─ Principles and Practices

This book introduces the engineer to techniques of detection and diagnosis of faults occurring in machines in general and rotating machines. It presents all methods of fault detection machines, and includes a brief review of vibrational analysis and rotor dynamics, followed by techniques of wear and debris analysis. It provides other techniques of machinery condition monitoring such as the NDT techniques and thermography. The book also contains many case studies.

Amiya R. Mohanty has been a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, since 1996, and is currently a professor of mechanical engineering. He has a B.ScEngg (Hons) in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He holds a master’s degree in machine design specialization from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a PhD in the area of noise control from the University of Kentucky in the United States. Prof. Mohanty is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of India. He has consulted more than 50 companies, and published more than 100 journal articles.