The stealth capability of a submarine differentiates it from other maritime platforms. The power plant for many submarines exceeds 1 Mega-Watt and the technical challenge is to reduce its acoustic signature to unperceivable levels. Novel vibration reduction technologies have been developed and tested at the University of Adelaide as part of a DSTO Capability Technology Demonstrator program that...

A system has been developed to extract diagnostic information from jet engine carcass vibration data. Support Vector Machines applied to novelty detection provide a measure of how unusual the shape of a vibration signature is, by learning a representation of normality. We describe a novel method for Support Vector Machines of including information from a second class for novelty detection and g...

Piezoelectric ceramic Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) transducers, working on the principle of electromechanical impedance (EMI), are increasingly applied for structural health monitoring (SHM) in aerospace, civil and mechanical engineering. The PZT transducers are usually surface bonded to or embedded in a structure and subjected to actuation so as to interrogate the structure at the desired fre...

Vibration isolation and noise control technologies are used in submarines on multiple systems and there are various reasons for employing these technologies. One of the principal reasons is to minimise the acoustic signature of the submarine so that it is difficult to detect. This paper contains descriptions of conventional and emerging noise and vibration isolation technologies that have and c...

Using the Vibration signatures obtained during the operations as the original data, a mechanical condition monitoring method for vacuum circuit breaker is developed in this paper. The method combined the time-frequency analysis and the condition recognition based on artificial neural network. During preprocessing, the vibration signature was decomposed into individual frequency bands using the ...

The vibration signal carries the signature of the fault in most rotating equipments, and early fault detection of a fault is possible by analyzing the signal using different signal processing techniques. In this paper we consider gearboxes as a typical representation of a rotating or cyclo-stationary process. Faults in gearboxes leave their signature on the vibration signal with an increased pr...

Gears are important element in a variety of industrial applications such as machine tool and gearboxes. An unexpected failure of the gear may cause significant economic losses. For that reason, fault diagnosis in gears has been the subject of intensive research. Vibration signal analysis has been widely used in the fault detection of rotation machinery. The vibration signal of a gearbox carries...