Safe building and process technology: SysKo cooperation project develops condition-based maintenance strategy for monitoring building services expansion joints
The "SysKo" cooperation project initiated by Prof Dr Mathias Rudolph (Faculty of Engineering at HTWK Leipzig) and Dr Ulf Brandt(bau msr GmbH) closes a gap in the field of maintenance. The methodology developed for system diagnostics for building services and industrial expansion joint installations enables safe and efficient operation of the entire system.
A condition-based maintenance strategy for monitoring building services expansion joints detects both malfunctions and limit value violations and also enables early predictive damage detection. Using damage-relevant variables and their metrological recording, the continuous evaluation of diagnostic parameters and based on a corresponding fuzzy classifier enables condition identification, which automatically provides information on the degree of wear of the expansion joint/corrugated hose as well as recommendations for maintenance and installation. As a result, the methodology developed provides an analytical maintenance strategy whose results are of fundamental interest for plant safety in all technical areas of application.
The project, which has been running since July 2018, will be completed at the end of this year. Prof Rudolph: "The topic of condition monitoring is becoming increasingly important due to the growing complexity and diversity of technical systems. For this reason, we are delighted to be continuing our collaboration with bau msr. This time, the focus of the "AirTreat" cooperation project, which has been running since July this year, is the efficient removal of stagnant water and residual moisture in pipework systems of compact building services systems."
Further information: Press release on Facility Management
