Professional Diploma in Mechanical Failure Diagnosis

This professional diploma teaches you to read the evidence that failing machinery leaves behind and to turn it into a reliable diagnosis. You will study strength of materials, failure modes, ductile and brittle fracture, fatigue and beach marks, stress concentrations and evidence preservation; wear mechanisms, tribology, corrosion, stress corrosion cracking and fretting; vibration fundamentals, sensors, FFT spectra, unbalance, misalignment, looseness, resonance, bearing and gear faults and dynamic balancing; oil analysis with particle counts, spectrometry, ferrography, AN/BN and contamination checks; borescopy, PT, MT, UT and phased array, RT, eddy current, infrared thermography and acoustic emission; typical failures in bearings, gears, shafts, couplings, bolted joints, welds, belts and chains; diagnostics on pumps, compressors, turbines, engines and hydraulic systems; and root cause analysis with Ishikawa, 5 Whys, fault trees, metallography, SEM and FEM.

What sets this diploma apart: a failure analysis approach that goes beyond detecting symptoms to explaining why a component failed; a multi-technique toolkit combining vibration, oil analysis, thermography and NDT in a single diagnosis; detailed coverage of the components that fail most often, from bearings and gears to bolted joints and welds; applicability to marine engines, pumps, compressors and turbines as well as industrial plant; and strong emphasis on technical failure reports, cost of downtime and lessons learned to stop failures from returning.