An Historical View of Mechanical Failure Prevention Technology

In April 1967, 42 engineers and scientists concerned with the troublesome and costly problems of mechanical failures met at the Office of Naval Research to form the Mechanical Failures Prevention Group (MFPG). The participants, who represented several government agencies and industries, met to devel...

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Published in:Sound & vibration 2008-05, Vol.42 (5), p.10-19
Main Authors: PUSEY, Henry C, HOWARD, Paul L
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Committees
Conferences
Design
Engineering research
Exact sciences and technology
Failure analysis
Fracture mechanics (crack, fatigue, damage...)
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
Industrial metrology. Testing
Materials science
Mechanical engineering. Machine design
Meetings
Physics
Product safety
Public policy
Society
Solid mechanics
Stress analysis
Structural and continuum mechanics
Vibration analysis
Vibration, mechanical wave, dynamic stability (aeroelasticity, vibration control...)
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Summary:In April 1967, 42 engineers and scientists concerned with the troublesome and costly problems of mechanical failures met at the Office of Naval Research to form the Mechanical Failures Prevention Group (MFPG). The participants, who represented several government agencies and industries, met to develop a forum to exchange information and innovative ideas on methods to avoid or predict mechanical failures in a wide variety of vehicles, equipment and structures. This meeting was the genesis of a broad interdisciplinary society that has become and serves today as a powerful resource in the field of machinery failure prevention, analysis, diagnostics and prognostics. This article, an updated revision of a paper published in the proceedings of MFPT 50, describes the developments and progress in mechanical failure prevention technology, primarily over the last four decades. The principal sources for this overview are the proceedings of the 49 conferences of the MFPG, which has become the Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology (MFPT) and is an operating division of the Vibration Institute.
ISSN:1541-0161
2693-1443