High availability and low operational costs are critical for industrial systems. While industrial equipments are designed to endure several years of uninterrupted operation, their behavior and performance will eventually deteriorate over time. To support service and operation decisions, it is important to devise methods to infer the condition of equipments from available data. The monitoring of...

This paper is concerned with the calibration and validation of a finite-element model of dry sliding wear in metals. The model is formulated within a Lagrangian framework capable of accounting for large plastic deformations and history-dependent material behavior. We resort to continuous adaptive meshing as a means of eliminating deformation-induced element distortion, and of resolving fine fea...

The following paper will describe a methodology for automatically detecting and diagnosing rolling element bearing wear. The techniques involved have been proven in over 15 years of use in a huge variety of environments, machine types and applications. The techniques involved in diagnosing bearing wear will be described in detail and supported by a set of example graphs and an annotated diagnos...

nowadays the surface texturing has been widely recognized as a usable capability to improve the tribological systems. in this paper, ultrasonic assisted turning (uat) isperformed to create the micro textures on the flat faces. micro surface texturing ismade on the al7075-t6 by the uat in the face turning process. then, the influences of cutting speed feed, vibration direction and vibration ampl...

This paper describes the formal modeling and analysis of a design for a flash-based filesystem in Alloy. We model the basic operations of a filesystem as well as features that are crucial to NAND flash hardware, such as wear-leveling and erase-unit reclamation. In addition, we address the issue of fault tolerance by modeling a mechanism for recovery from interrupted filesystem operations due to...

Every mechanical system is naturally subjected to some kind of wear process that, at some point, will cause failure in the system if no monitoring or treatment process is applied. Since failures often lead to high economical costs, it is essential both to predict and to avoid them. To achieve this, a monitoring system of the wear level should be implemented to decrease the risk of failure. In t...

It is shown that when modeling a single interaction of an abrasive particle with the surface part in process collision under air (liquid) pressure, it necessary to take into account specifics impact-abrasive wear, separation wear preceded by metal destruction. In schematization contact during blasting, some commonality shot blasting and number assumptions typical for grinding, micro cutting gra...

The significant costs insert on mineral processes due to mill liner wear including the labor costs, price of material and shut down periods. Therefore, the study of this phenomenon is economically important to optimize the mill operating conditions and liner profile design to decrease the wear rate. There is no appropriate and applicable research on impact wear evaluation of mill liners. In the...

In this study, small fraction of NiTi (5 wt%) was added to Yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) top coat to improve it sliding wear resistance. The measurement of width of wear tracks after wear tests under a 15 N load for 100 m sliding distances showed that the width of wear track in NiTi-YSZ coating is shorter than that in YSZ coating which depicts the higher wear resistance of NiTi-YSZ coa...

ni-w coatings, compared to pure nanocrystalline ni, exhibit higher hardness and wear resistance. in some cases, these coatings are considered as environmental friendly alternatives for hard chromium coating. till now, most of ni-w coatings have been produced by direct current electrodeposition from alkaline baths. in this study square pulse current was used for deposition of ni-w precipitates f...