This 6-part series of 90-minute virtual seminars focus on the performance, durability or reliability requirements of a specific industry or application.
The six sessions showcased applications of measurement, monitoring and modelling for electrical, acoustical and structural performance from batteries to bridges to aircraft landing gear and electric vehicles.
The presented applications will help you to overcome challenges in sensors for measurement accuracy and precision, and subsequent data analysis, analytics and reliability modelling.
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Understanding and characterising battery performance is critical for electric vehicle development. This learning is established from multiple sources including laboratory testing, real-world vehicle fleets, physics and chemistry simulation models, and statistical and machine learning models.
These presentations describe predictive battery analytics, characterisation of lithium-ion cells and measuring battery capacity fading using force transducers.
As the evolution of the cell is moving fast forward with advanced chemistry, formats, capturing the key characteristics of the cell’s performance becomes critical to cell integration into the Pack. Those key characteristics include cell’s fundamental performance such as capacity, DCIR, cycle life & storage life as well thermal properties, safeties under extreme use conditions or abuse conditions.
A suite of characterization is introduced how Jaguar Land Rover cell team are capturing those key characteristics as the cell testing & validation methods. Those key characteristics are providing a full spectrum of the information of cells’ interfaces in the Pack.
Electric cars play an important role in the decarbonization strategy of many countries. The technology has been improved in the last years, but besides the range of the car, the time required to charge an electric vehicle is also important as shorter charge stops would make them much more attractive to a wider audience.
A shorter time with the same capacity entails operating with higher currents. Current, temperature and number of cycles are the most important factors that influence capacity fading, meaning the decrease of the capacity of a lithium-ion battery.
Traditionally, battery tests are performed by measuring voltage and current. A more innovative method is to measure the force of a lithium-ion pack while charging or discharging processes in a fixed position. Using a suitable load cell, the test can be performed at various temperatures, and long-term tests are possible as well.
The requirements the force transducer must meet are given by the nature of the testing procedure: The long duration requires a low drift, and possible harsh environments make a hermetically sealed load cell necessary. Recent load cells are extremely accurate sensors, but as with every measurement, a certain measurement uncertainty occurs with a battery test as well.
This lecture will discuss the most important technical aspects for choosing a suitable load cell for a “punch cell test”, and you will also learn how to do an easy calculation to get a good estimation of the measurement uncertainty.
Testing electrical machines and electrical powertrains is a key task in developing the electric future of industry and transportation. To increase efficiency, acoustic quality, durability and reliability of next-generation electrical machines and drives, used in cars, other land vehicles, air vehicles and marine vehicles, requires testing with accuracy and precision, and analysis capability to characterise their steady state and dynamic operational conditions.
These presentations describe using electrical characteristics to identify motor degradation and failure, acoustic quality at end-of-line testing, efficiency characterisation by instantaneous power calculations.
Acoustical quality has become an increasingly important topic over the last few years. Customers expect technology to be not only reliable but also sustainable, well-designed and quiet. Especially in the automotive industry, the change toward electric mobility shifted customer expectations from roaring engine power sound to silent gliding. This leads to ever-increasing requirements for acoustic quality testing in production, not only in R&D.
A well-designed acoustic analysis for end-of-line testing can do much more than simply find “loud” units. By using constructive information about the device under test, irregular noises can be attributed to specific parts and root causes, enabling efficient repair. Combining results from actual drive tests in cars with limits derived from production statistics, it is possible to identify units which would lead to customer complaints and as well units which have hidden production defects. Long-term statistical analysis of production data expands the scope from the single device under test towards the whole production process with trends and hidden correlations.
This presentation will show the current state of end-of-line acoustic production testing with a focus on automotive powertrain applications and on the Discom production test system.
If you are an Automotive or Mechanical Engineer who wants a conceptual understanding of dynamic AC power analysis, or an electrical engineer who wants a non-mathematical refresher, then this presentation is for you!
Mitch Marks, Business Development Manager - EPT, Electrification, HBK
Mitch has worked in electric motor developing and testing his entire career and specializes in test and measurement traction motors and drives. He has been with HBK since 2017 as a member of the electric power testing team. He has an undergraduate and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison WEMPEC program.
Dr. Holger Behme-Jahns, Head of Project Engineering and Acoustics, Discom GmbH
Dr. Behme-Jahns has a PhD in Physics, graduating from Göttingen University. He joined Discom in 1995 as first employee to founder, Dr. Thomas Lewien, and has worked as technology and software developer, consultant, sales and many other roles during the growth of Discom. He currently heads the Project Engineering team at Discom which adapts our solution to customer needs, develops new approaches and supports our customers with training and consultancy.
Dr. Andrew Halfpenny, Director of Technology, HBK nCode Products
Dr. Halfpenny has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University College London (UCL) and a Masters’ in Civil and Structural Engineering. With over 25 years of experience in structural dynamics, vibration, fatigue and fracture, he has introduced many new technologies to the industry including: FE-based vibration fatigue analysis, crack growth simulation and accelerated vibration testing. He holds a European patent for the ‘Damage monitoring tag’ and developed the new vibration standard used for qualifying UK military helicopters. He has worked in consultancy with customers across the UK, Europe, Americas and the Far East, and has written publications on Fatigue, Digital Signal Processing and Structural Health Monitoring. He sits on the NAFEMS committee for Dynamic Testing and is a guest lecturer on structural dynamics with The University of Sheffield.
Civil infrastructure (bridges, tunnels, railways, pipelines, energy plant, process plant) are subject to operational environments and conditions that cause structural degradation through time, normal use, extreme use, accident, and potential natural disaster. Structural health monitoring (SHM) is the ability to measure and observe the response of a structure to enable early identification of deterioration through response changes.
These presentations show the value of information from SHM for emergency management, bridge inspection requirements, research for bridges as a population of structures, and optical sensor technology used in measurements for SHM systems for bridges and civil infrastructure.
Bridges are an interesting set of structures from the point of view of infrastructure management. Firstly, they are a diverse set of structures, and secondly, they individually experience significant variation in the environmental conditions and loading.
The aim of this presentation is to provide an overview of how bridges are managed, the kind of sensing/monitoring that is sometimes undertaken and the trajectory of research in this area.
Initially, we look at how short to medium-span bridges are typically managed via periodic visual inspections. Subsequently, the presentation gives a sense of the kind of monitoring that has been used on bridges, as well as some of the sensing and data processing challenges that exist. Finally, the presentation looks at some of the very latest research in particular the idea of looking at bridges, or subsets of bridges, as a population of structures.
Structural Health Monitoring systems aim to control the integrity of a structure throughout its service life so that planned maintenance and serviceability extension safely maximize this asset's profitability. Monitoring systems are expected to reliably operate through long periods and resist extreme events.
The use of optical sensors based on Fiber Bragg Grating technology is becoming an interesting choice for Structural Monitoring Systems. In this presentation, you will learn about the technology, product possibilities and current state of the art.
The main challenges we are facing when monitoring civil structures will be identified and we will show how using optical technology can support overcoming them with concrete application examples.
The value of structural health monitoring (SHM) is realised through analysis of structural response measurements. Such analyses can include structural characterisation, identification of trends and divergence from trends, calculation of cumulative usage indicators, predictive estimation of remaining structural life and more. These data analytics quantify the overall structural condition to inform decision making for continual safe operation, predictive maintenance planning, and replacement planning.
Successful and efficient implementation of SHM data analytics requires many steps from measurement data acquisition, validation & cleaning, database ingress, calculating operational parameters from physical and statistical models, investigative and retrospective analysis, visualisation and reporting.
These presentations show applications of such models with machine learning for SHM of bridges and civil infrastructure, certification of machine learning for remaining useful life of aircraft landing gear, and SHM of railway infrastructure and rail vehicles.
Landing gear systems on Aircraft undergo a multitude of forces during their life cycle, leading to the eventual replacement of this system based on a ‘safe life’ approach that certain circumstances underestimate the component’s remaining useful life.
The efficacy of fatigue life approximation methodologies is studied and compared to the ongoing Structural Health Monitoring techniques being researched, which will forecast failures based on the system’s specific life and withstanding abilities, ranging from creating a digital twin to applying neural network technologies, in order to simulate and approximate locations and levels of failure along the structure.
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) allows for the ease of integration of Deep Neural Network (DNN) data into predictive maintenance, which is a procedure focused on the health of a system and its efficient upkeep via the use of sensor-based data.
Test data from a flight includes a multitude of conditions and varying parameters such as the surface of the landing strip as well as the aircraft itself, requiring the use of DNN models for damage assessment and failure anticipation, where compliance to standards is a major question raised, as the EASA AI roadmap is followed, as well as the ICAO and FAA.
This presentation additionally discusses the challenges faced with respect to standardizing the explainable AI methodologies and their parameters specifically for the case of landing gear.
With the help of HBK's TSI-Spot® (Single Point Of Truth) concept, railroad companies are enabled to obtain a holistic view of vehicles and infrastructure. New measurement methods and data processing methods allow the early detection of unnecessary wear and deviations on vehicles (wheels and pantograph) and infrastructure (superstructure and overhead line) in real-time and, thanks to the high data quality, to derive reliable, fully automated forecasts for future plannable maintenance interventions.
Maintenance planning receives daily updated information about the track condition and the individual reaction of a vehicle type in real-time. HBK's high-precision, compact and cost-effective measurement technology, combined with state-of-the-art software solutions, enables fully autonomous measurement of the relevant permanent way and overhead line parameters in real-time.
The increasing electrification of transport systems presents many challenges to achieving the desired reliability of these electric vehicles and their electric power systems, to mitigate both a safety risk and warranty exposure. They require convergence and conversion between mechanical power and electrical power. Some failure modes and reliability models carry over from predominantly mechanical powered vehicles, whilst new failure modes are created, requiring identification and quantification through testing, simulation and validation.
These presentations show building a reliability validation plan for the automotive electric powertrain, statistical and reliability methods for determining electric vehicle system reliability, and why aviation needs more reliable and standardised electrical testing for the shift to more-electric aircraft.
Prognostics-enabled electrification should lead to high reliability, low maintenance (via only repair or replacement during scheduled maintenance) and uptake of more electrical systems for primary controls.
This presentation proposes a radically new approach to reliable system design to improve the robustness of complex electrical and electronics systems in aerospace and automotive applications by means of intelligent prognostics for extending the usable life.
More robustness is mostly required in applications where reliability and system health management are important or critical, such as automotive industries and aeronautics. It will provide a new source of an advanced supervisory unit to quantify the practicality of implementing prognostics tools in powertrains to detect the degradation and estimate their remaining life-time.
The automotive industry is mobilizing at a rapid pace to meet the demands and challenges presented by the shift to more widely accepted battery-powered electric vehicles. The rapid pace of innovation can expose manufacturers to potentially expensive warranty claims.
This presentation addresses techniques to quantify and minimize reliability exposure for structural EV battery systems. It covers the following topics:
Fault tree analysis is one of any symbolic analytical logic techniques found in operations research, system reliability analysis, risk analysis and other disciplines. A fault tree diagram follows a top-down structure and represents a graphical model of the pathways within a system that can lead to a foreseeable, undesirable loss event (or a failure). The pathways interconnect contributory events and conditions using standard logic gates (AND, OR, etc). Analysts may wish to use fault trees in combination with reliability block diagrams for system analysis. Fault trees may also be useful for analysing the effects of individual failure modes and in conjunction with FMEA.
These presentations introduce fault tree analysis to identify the critical path, and their use in combination with reliability block diagrams to understand and improve a system, followed by their application to tens of thousands of assets for advanced reliability analysis and reliability digital twins.
This presentation will explore how best to use fault tree analyses to uncover and surface your primary unreliability drivers in your system.
We will explore the methodologies and next steps once you have identified the bad actors in your system.
This presentation describes a practical approach to use automation for creating reliability models, simulations, and insights for a large number of assets. Most industries are looking to pursue more data-driven reliability practices. Most reliability practitioners highly value the insights they gain from fault tree analysis and reliability block diagrams.
However, often a limiting factor is data access, quality, and personnel time to process large quantities of data. This is where automation can help to enable reliability practitioners to focus majority of their time on analysis and decisions.
This presentation will showcase how best to merge automation with reliability-know-how to scale in-depth analysis like reliability predictions and event probability for tens of thousands of assets in a short timeframe.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
