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Standard Practices for Acoustic Emission Measurement on Rotating Machinery

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Acoustic Emission Technique (AET) is a state-of-the-art method to measure faint surface vibration resulting from stress waves when a material is subjected to crack, fracture, corrosion, friction, wear, turbulence, etc. Acoustic emission is a widely used and standardized technique in the field of structural diagnosis. The technique has been extended to machinery condition monitoring in recent years. However, with the non-availability of standards dedicated to the machinery section, the measurements are mostly carried out on personal experiences. This article is a set of standard practices, drawn from already established standards, new methods conceived and applied by researchers in their work and authors’ personal experiences, for application of AET in rotating machinery.

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    Surojit Poddar & N. Tandon

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    Yasser Rafat

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Poddar, S., Tandon, N. (2021). Standard Practices for Acoustic Emission Measurement on Rotating Machinery. In: Singh, M., Rafat, Y. (eds) Recent Developments in Acoustics. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5776-7_24

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