Advanced Machinery Reliability Analysis Course

Course Overview:

This course provides a knowledge of the scope of machinery related failure modes and their causes. Participants shall cover service induced defect, the probable cause of the failure and the methods of investigating and analyzing failures.

The course discusses failure mechanics, reliability and risk assessment, and all other costs associated with the life cycle of the machinery. 

This course also includes real life cases to complement the theoretical concepts taught in class. 

Course intended for engineers and other technical personnel involved in design, operation, inspecting and maintaining activities, it provides them with valuable information that would assist in the improvement of a machine effectiveness and risks reduction.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the course the participants will understand the following:

·       Service included defects in machinery 

·       Reasons for possible future failures

·       Actual failure mechanism

·       Techniques use to investigate failures

·       Reliability and failures risk

·       Costs involved in all stages of the machinery life cycle

·       Chemical analysis – microstructure analysis mechanical

Who Should Attend?

The course is designed for all personnel (engineers and/ or technical staff) who are involved in machinery. Engineering – Design – Operation – Inspection and maintenance

Course Outlines:

• Introduction
•  General Definitions
•  Service induced discontinuities: cracks – thermal – Fatigue – Embattlement – corrosion fatigue – stress corrosion cracking.

Potential Failure analysis

• General causes of failures: Operation variance, material susceptibility, Environ action.
• Five causes of Failure: Design, material, manufacture, environment, operation/ maintenance
•  Actual Failure Analysis
• Brittle and Ductile Failures
• Techniques for analysis: fractography
•  Case studies for some failure cases
•  Reliability and risk assessment
• Introduction
• Failure versus success modes
• Fault Tree Analysis
• Double failure matrix and the inductive method

Failure mechanics

• Principals
• Fracture mechanic and failure analysis
• The transition from plastic to elastic
• Case studies
•  Ductile to brittle fracture transition
•  Failure mechanics: creep & fatigue.

• Failure mechanics: Corrosion, Erosion, and wear

• Life cycle costs
• Engineering and design costs
• Material costs
• Commissioning costs
• Operation and maintenance costs
• Outage costs
• Decommission costs
•  Case studies
•  General discussion concerning the course