Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM) of Modern Tribological Systems: A State-of-the-Art Review

摘要

Modern Tribological systems (such as aerospace vehicles, industrial processes, manufacturing systems, transportation systems, electrical and electronic systems, etc) have moving parts of one type or other and are becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex. These are subjected to various known and unknown failure modes which impact adversely their reliability, availability, safety and maintainability. Tribology has played a significant role in reducing friction, wear and extending the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of modern engineering systems. In the past few decades, system designers and thinkers are increasingly becoming aware of the proactive concept of intelligent-based failure diagnosis and prognosis as the way forward to continuously improve the health and performance of their valuable assets. This change in philosophical attitude from reactive to proactive diagnosis/prognosis and a greater appreciation of assessing the 'state of health' and 'overall operational efficiency' of complex engineering systems should bring immense long term performance improvement and socio-economic benefits to global economy. In this state-of-the-art review paper, some condition monitoring and diagnostic engineering management (COMADEM) strategies are identified with specific reference to modern Tribological systems