Tribo-sensing and Condition Monitoring: The Journey to Net-Zero

One Birdcage Walk, London

25 October 2023

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Overview

In 2022, the Institution's Tribology Group initiated a series of ‘Tribology and the Journey to Net Zero’ seminars, with each event being focused on a different industry or application area.

The second of these, taking place in 2023, will focus on Tribo-sensing and Condition Monitoring. It will cover a spectrum of tribo-sensing applications: from novel laboratory and test-based ‘forensic’ sensing, designed to increase knowledge and understanding of the physics of tribo-contacts; to fielded sensor systems which accurately measure or help to predict on-condition component status and enable intelligent asset management.

Tribology is key to helping achieve the ambitious drive to net-zero by 2050, from increasing machinery efficiency (by reducing emissions and premature scrappage) to enabling new technologies which positively impact the design and design practice for moving parts.

Topics covered will include:

1) Component Design and Robustness:
a) In-situ tribo-monitoring of component tests can be used to increase knowledge of the physics of tribo-contact.
i) This includes routes to failure, performance of new materials/ lubricants and improved understanding of operational and environmental factors.
ii) Such knowledge can be used to generate more realistic (less conservative) design requirements to optimise component design, reduce over-engineering and reduce overuse of material resources.

2) Life Asset Management:
a) Condition monitoring of assets with tribological components can be utilised for intelligent asset management
i) Both fluid and static structures important to recognise in terms of optimisation and efficiency
(1) Coverage of manufacturing issues
b) Linking the tribology between component design and development to in-service and end-of-life phases will enable more accurate through-life predictions.
i) Key operational decisions and actions are taken based on an asset’s predicted health status.

3) The Applications of Tribology: Improving efficiency
a) Tribology in the future energy mix
b) Lubrication
i) Reduction in waste energy
c) Connection to Life Asset Management:
i) Better accuracy is paramount to improved efficiency (reduced energy consumption and emissions – including wear), reduced in-service failures and reduced unnecessary scrappage.

Join this seminar to:

Hear about the role of tribo-sensing and condition monitoring in addressing sustainability and the net-zero carbon mandate
Learn about the latest developments in tribo-sensing and condition monitoring from academia and industry
Find out how industry is adopting these methods to improve in-service operation and maintenance
Benefit from face-to-face networking with key academic and industrial players to share views and solutions to key challenges
Understand the connection between component design optimisation and improving performance/efficiency focus on net-zero carbon 2050 challenges

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Day 1

09:30 - Seminar Programme

	Wednesday, 25 October 2023
09:30	Registrations and Refreshments
	Tribo-Sensing and Condition Monitoring
10:00	Chair’s Opening Remarks Ian Sherrington, Professor of Tribotechnology and Research Lead, University of Central Lancaster
10:05	Keynote Presentation Michael Burkinshaw, Technical Advisor – Materials Engineering, University Collaborations Leader, Cummins Engine Components
10:25	Comparison of Options for Dynamic Response Analysis of Axle Bearings Philip Shackleton, Principal Industrial Fellow, Institute of Railway Research, University of Huddersfield Condition monitoring of axle bearings of rail vehicles brings the potential to shift from preventive to reactive maintenance strategies, extend overhaul periods and deliver operational savings Existing technology provides two distinct approaches for axle bearing monitoring: on-vehicle systems fitted to each vehicle to be monitored; or track-side systems monitoring all passing vehicles The two approaches have dissimilar implementation and cost profiles, and so a cost-benefit analysis was undertaken to identify how the technologies could be best utilised in the context of GB freight operations, and to identify which approach could provide the greatest value for money
10:45	Networking Refreshment Break
11:15	A Machine Learning Tool for On-Train Adhesion Estimation Roger Lewis, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield Problem of low adhesion for the railway industry Development and validation of a machine learning tool for rail head friction prediction Trials of system onboard a train
11:35	Condition Monitoring of Oil Wetted Systems Tim Nowell, Senior Technical Specialist, Intertek Fuels and Lubricants Centre Consideration of the benefits of oil condition monitoring to fleet operators Application of OCM testing in a preventative maintenance programme Developments in oil wetted wear debris analysis methodologies
12:00	Question and Answer Session
12:20	Networking Lunch
	Tribo-Sensing and Condition Monitoring
13:20	In-situ tribo-monitoring of wind turbine bearings Rob Dwyer-Joyce,Professor of Tribology, University of Sheffield A review of the sensors methods available to measure the conditions in contacts in machine elements How ultrasound can be used to measure lubrication and load in rolling element bearings A case study on the measurement of the performance of a wind turbine gearbox bearing in the field
13:40	The application of sensors in tribo-contact for intelligent asset management Ling Wang, Professor of Tribo-Sensing, University of Southampton
14:00	Internet of Surfaces Tomasz Liskiewicz, Professor of Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University Passive and one-dimensional surfaces are less relevant for the age of information Surfaces need to move towards sensing, active and responsive capability ‘Internet of Surfaces’ indicates the direction of travel for surface engineering domain
14:20	Question and Answer Session
14:40	Networking Refreshment Break
	The Applications of Tribology: Improving Efficiency
15:10	In-situ tribo-monitoring in Future Systems: Implementation Ian Sherrington, Professor of Tribotechnology and Research Lead, University of Central Lancaster
15:30	Cooling and lubrication as key enablers for a sustainable high performance electric powertrain Stefan Fuchss, Chief Engineer, Technical Area Electric Drive Units, Jaguar Land Rover Jaguar Land Rover’s journey to zero tailpipe emission Cooling and lubrication as a combined functionality Challenges to create a sustainable fluid that covers multiple tasks
15:50	Tribology, Condition Monitoring, and the Future Professor Honor Powrie, Senior Director for Data Science and Analytics, GE and Visiting Professor, University of Southampton Condition monitoring: Design optimisation, accuracy, and efficiency Aerospace: Operational lifecycle, optimisation through condition monitoring
16:10	Question and Answer Session
16:30	Chair’s Closing Remarks
16:40	End of Seminar

Roger Lewis: Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield

Roger Lewis is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Sheffield. He is also currently a RAEng/Rail Safety and Standards Board Research Chair in Wheel/Rail Interface Low Adhesion Management. He has been at the University since starting his undergraduate degree in 1992. He has had over 20 years experience of working on a wide range of tribological issues, but now mainly focuses on wheel/rail interface and human tribology research.

Tomasz Liskiewicz: Professor of Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University

Tomasz Liskiewicz is a Professor of Tribology and Surface Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University where he acts as a Head of Department of Engineering.

He has 25 years of international academic and engineering experience from leading research institutions in the UK, France, Canada and Poland.

His research interests focus on surface engineering and tribology of functional surfaces, with a particular interest in understanding the engineering coatings, its architectures and optimization for enhanced functions.

He was elected Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London in 2014. Tomasz is an editor-in-chief at Taylor & Francis Tribology journal and contributed invited book chapters on surface engineering and micro-mechanical characterisation methods.

Rob Dwyer-Joyce: Professor of Tribology, University of Sheffield

Professor Rob Dwyer-Joyce is director of the Leonardo Centre for Tribology at the University of Sheffield with five academic staff and 50 PhD students and 11 research assistants.

He has a first degree in Mechanical Engineering and did his PhD on debris effects in Rolling bearings at Imperial college.

He pioneered the use of ultrasound for tribological machine elements, to measure of oil film, contact load, and viscosity.

He has published over 150 papers in international journals.

He is director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Integrated Tribology, an EPRSC Advanced Career Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and past editor of the IMechE Journal of Tribology.

Stefan Fuchss: Chief Engineer, Technical Area Electric Drive Units, Jaguar Land Rover

After completion of his Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern in 1997 Stefan Fuchss started as a vehicle concept Engineer at Daimler AG.

From 2001 to 2005 he was responsible for synergy vehicle Engineering in Auburn Hills, MI USA.

In 2005 he was appointed senior manager for the development of Mercedes 4Matic AWD vehicles.

From 2009 he became Chief Programme Engineer of Daimler’s 9G-Tronic automatic transmission which over time would include the Mercedes Hybrid- and AWD-systems.

In 2017 Mr. Fuchss is responsible at Jaguar Land Rover for the Engineering of Electric Drive Units, E-Machines and Inverters.

Philip Shackleton: Principal Industrial Fellow, Institute of Railway Research, University of Huddersfield

Phil is a mechanical engineer in the rail industry, with expertise stemming from his PhD where he studied the computer modelling of wheel-rail contact.

Through participation in a wide range of publicly funded research projects, contracted research and commercial work, Phil has built significant experience in the fields of vehicle-track and wheel-rail interaction, and is particularly recognised for his expertise in freight vehicle performance.

Outside of the rail industry Phil also has a keen interest in performance, and condition, monitoring of wind turbine blades: using inertial measurements to reconstruct dynamic blade responses and to provide damage and degradation indicators.

Tim Nowell: Senior Technical Speacialist, Intertek Fuels and Lubricants Centre

Four decades + experience in Scanning Electron Microscopy/Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (SEM/EDS) and Optical Microscopy (OM) specialising in the application of oil wetted wear debris analysis technologies for the last 25 years. Current role includes the provision of debris analysis support to a wide variety of civilian and military customers including aerospace, offshore, marine, fixed/mobile land systems, the renewable energy sector and UK and international Intertek laboratories. The role includes development of SEM/EDS and OM methodologies including automated systems and specimen preparation techniques, training and support of FLC junior staff, as well providing mentoring of Intertek international laboratories in SEM/EDS techniques. Long term member of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) Lubrication Analysis Working Group (LA WG) and Condition Monitoring Technical Committee (CMTC).

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