Course Instructor:

• Dr. Saeed Asiri
• Office: 24E38
• Mobile: +966565555275
• Email: saeed@asiri.net
• Twitter: @drsaeedasiri
• Facebook: saeedasiri

Course TA:

• Eng. Essam Bahgat Moustafa
• Office: Vibration Laboratory
• Email: essam_bahgat79@hotmail.com or essbahgat@gmail.com

Course Website: http://www.asiri.net/courses/meng472

Schedule:

Lectures: Sun  from 7:30 to 8:50 am  at Classroom # 206

Laboratory: Sun. from  2:30 to 4:20 pm  at Vibration Laboratory

Prerequisite: MENG 410 and MENG 470

Textbook:  No Textbook but use the lecture notes in the course website and a recommended reference (e.g. Practical Machinery Vibration Analysis and Predictive Maintenance, Scheffer and Gridhar)     

Course Description:

Review of vibration: Free vibration, Harmonically excited vibration, Fourier analysis.  Instruments: Transducers, FFT analyzer, Sampling and aliasing. Machine vibration problems: Imbalance, Misalignment, Bearings, Gears, Fans, Belts, Looseness, Beating phenomenon, Cavitations,  Vibration measuring techniques and Maintenance management. Optimum location of transducers, Mode shapes, Resonance test