Condition Monitoring Lab


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Lab Details


Lab Director: Prof. Mehdi Behzad
Assistant : Dr. Somaye Mohammadi
Lab Number: B10
Lab Tel: +98 (21) 6616 5519, +98 (21) 66165500, + 98 (21) 66165509

Director's Email: m_behzad@sharif.edu

Sharif Condition Monitoring Center: https://cmfd.sharif.ir/
Rotor Dynamics Lab
 

Aims and Scope


Related Courses

 
  • Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis
  • Bearing and Lubrication
  • Machinery Maintenance
  • Rotor Dynamics

Industrial Workshops

 
  • Vibration Analysis- Level 1
  • Vibration Analysis- Level 2
  • Rotating Machinery Balancing
  • Alignment
  • Rotor Dynamics
  • Applied Modal Analysis
  • Bearings Fault Detection
  • Gearbox Fault Detection

Research and Industrial Projects

 
  • Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Rotary and Fixed Industrial Equipment
  • Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Bearings
  • Balancing and Alignment of Rotating Machinery
  • Fault Diagnosis and Prognostics Software Development
  • Establishing Offline and Online Systems for Condition Monitoring


Apparatus


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Bearing Run-to-Failure Testrig

Application: Testing healthy bearings or with natural and artificial defects to generate data for the development of intelligent models for troubleshooting, or Run-to-Failure testing for the development of intelligent models for estimating the remaining useful life (RUL).
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Gearbox Testrig

Application: Generate artificial data to develop an intelligent model for industrial gearbox troubleshooting, which can be related to belt and pulley, gear, bearing, misalignment, or oil defects.
Data can be collected from this setup at variable speeds and loads.

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Pressure Distribution in Journal Bearing Testrig

Application: Frictional moment under different bearing clearances and loads, pressure distribution in the journal bearing, and locus of the shaft under different loads and speeds
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Journal Bearing with Hydrodynamic Lubrication Testrig

Application: Ideal observation of the function thanks to transparent bearing housing, Clear representation of the pressure distribution, and Investigation and visualization of instability in journal bearings

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Balancing Testrig

Application: Single and two-plane balancing with vibration analysis
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Alignment Testrig

Application: Alignment training using laser alignment device

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Rotor Critical Speed Testrig 

 Application: Understanding the concept of critical speed in rotors
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Industrial Fans Testrig 

Application: Demonstration of non-identification of cracks in the early stages of its growth by vibration analysis

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String Vibration Testrig

Application: Detection of natural frequency and mode shapes using stroboscope
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Industrial Fans

Services


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Vibration Sensor Calibration

Device: VC21D

Sensor Types:
Accelerometers and velocity transducers, non-contact displacement sensors (proximity or “Eddy Current” probes)

Flyer
Sample Certificate
Device Certificate
 
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Vibration Measurement and Analysis, Fault Diagnosis, and Balancing

Device: 
SDT Vigilant Ultrasound Solution- 8 dynamics and 4 static channels

Tests: Vibration and ultrasound measurement, balancing, run-up/coast-down tests, and impact hammer test
 
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Alignment of Rotating Machinery

Device: SPM Line Laser Alignment