Reliability, Availability, Management and Safety
Health Management & Prognostics
The primary requirement of the AIN is to develop a generic, open system, hardware platform for data acquisition, signal processing and computation of data fusion algorithms. The programme and associated capability development is separated into seven focal items that provide the source problem requiring a health monitoring solution:
Health Management and Through Life Support
The School of Mechanical Aerospace and Civil Engineering brings together expertise in these complementary fields to create a strong generic research group with applications in the aerospace and other industries. The scope of the research is large, encompassing
Health Management
Manchester has a long established research base in Health Management. Pioneering work into condition monitoring methods and maintenance engineering have been undertaken. The themes of present day research are:
Applications of the research include:
Through Life Support
Design for reliability and maintainability has also been long established at The University of Manchester, including work on creative design, design reviews, analysis methods and hardware remanufacturing. Today research has moved on to large systems - the design and reliability of through life support systems or ‘Total Care’ products.
Reliability, Availability, Maintenance and Safety
The Reliability, Availability, Maintenance and Safety special interest group is concerned with the design and support of systems, equipment and components from concept design, through operation and maintenance, to decommissioning. Its work includes design studies, condition monitoring, signal processing, damage detection, end of life options and project management. Applications are found in a wide variety of engineering, medical and business applications. The group has the following principal research interests:
- Novel detection methods for condition monitoring and damage identification, data capture, remote monitoring, data analysis and interpretation.
- Identification of material damage, dynamic response.
- Design, reliability and maintainability, creativity and concept design, Total Care system design and support incorporating project management.
Facilities
- Thermal Camera Imaging.
- Laser tri-vibrometer.
- Machine Condition Monitoring Laboratory.
- Wind tunnels.
- Fatigue, creep high speed impact testing facilities.
Relevant Postgraduate Study
Taught Programmes-
Mechanical Engineering Design (MED)
This well regarded Masters provides you with the latest technological knowledge in the mechanical engineering design, reliability and maintainability field, and their application to all stages of design and to creative and analytical engineering design activities. The course has a practical orientation and aims to produce engineers with theoretical and practical knowledge that will allow them to analyse and investigate problems at an advanced level.
The Maintenances Engineering and Asset Management. This program has the aim to introduce you to the basic concepts of maintenance and asset management. The principles of the subject are applied in the context of the industrial environment. This course will provide you with a Masters degree, Postgraduate diploma or Postgraduate certificate.
Research Degrees
The School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil engineering is a leading provider of postgraduate research programmes on an international level. Research students in this field are focusing in the investigation of design studies, condition monitoring, signal processing, damage detection, end of life options, project management, reliability of support systems, nano-materials, micro-components, smart materials, inverse problems, computational continuum mechanics, fractal mechanics
| Name | Research Areas |
|---|---|
| Dr M T Alonso-Rasgado | |
| Dr K Davey | |
| Prof A Gale | |
| Dr O Oyadiji | |
| Dr J Sinha |
Contact
Dr Teresa Alonso-Rasgado
Email: reliability@manchester.ac.uk
