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    Condition Monitoring of Misaligned Rotor System Using Acoustic Sensor by Response Surface Methodology
    (ASME, 2022) Jalan, Arun Kumar; Marathe, Amol
    Misalignment is among the most common causes of vibrations in rotary machinery. Modern machinery is complicated and installing a sensor might be tricky at times. As a result, noncontact type sensors are critical in such situations. The present study investigates the influence of combinations between speed, load, and fault severity upon system vibration by employing acoustic sensor. Although acoustic sensor is used in angular fault diagnosis, however, this is the first attempt to combine the noncontact type of sensor and response surface methodology (RSM) to study the influence of misalignment upon system vibration and the factors that induce system vibrations in a misaligned rotor system. To investigate the effect of these interactions on system performance, RSM with root-mean-square (RMS) as a response factor is used. Design of experiments is used to prepare experiments, while analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used to analyze the results. Speed has a significant impact on RMS value in both parallel and angular types of misalignments and it severely affects the system's performance. According to the RSM findings, a change in load influences vibration amplitude. With increasing defect severity, the change in RMS value was not particularly significant. The outcome of RSM using acoustic sensor was found well aligned with the conclusion drawn using RSM study with vibrational sensor.
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    A Review on Fault Diagnosis of Misaligned Rotor Systems
    (International Journal of Performability Engineering, 2020) Jalan, Arun Kumar
    The diagnosis and prognosis of misaligned rotor systems have gained importance in recent times. Misalignment has become one of the main reasons for system vibration, which reduces the life and stability of machine parts, making it vitally important for machines to perform effectively without any catastrophic failure. Limited research has been reported on understanding its effect on rotor systems. Even if zero misalignment is achieved at the beginning, it cannot be retained over longer durations due to various reasons. Many techniques like DWT, CWT, and HHT are also used to understand the misalignment problem. Some advanced techniques such as MCSA, thermal imaging, and the acoustic emission technique have come into existence and become important tools to classify faults, leading to more reliable misalignment diagnosis. In the present study, a detailed literature review is conducted to diagnose and classify misalignments. All recent techniques and their limitations are discussed, and a hybrid approach is presented for the lucid understanding of this fault and its classification.
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    Model based fault diagnosis in rotating machinery
    (International Journal of Performability Engineering, 2011-11) Jalan, Arun Kumar
    A continuing task in engineering is to increase the reliability, availability and safety of technical processes and to achieve these fault diagnosis becomes an advanced supervision tool in the present industries. Vibration in rotating machinery is mostly caused by unbalance, misalignment, shaft crack, mechanical looseness and other malfunctions. The objective of this paper is to propose a model based scheme for fault diagnosis of a rotor system. Presence of faults changes the dynamic behaviour of the system which is taken into account by equivalent loads acting on the healthy system model. In order to diagnose the faults in a rotor system the experimental time responses for healthy system as well as for faulty system were used. It was observed that the proposed scheme successfully detects and identifies the type, location and amount of fault in a rotor system for unbalance, misalignment and crack. This method has thus demonstrated the efficacy of the model based fault detection system for a simple rotor-bearing system.