Shake Things Up This Summer with Orbits!
24 April 2023
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Shake Things Up This Summer with Orbits! While we are still waiting for spring to really start. Orbits is already planning some courses towards the
BRAM VERVISCH
Experience
Oct 2017 – Present
Orbits Machinery Diagnostics – Cofounder
Advising and diagnosing machinery faults by electrical signature analysis and vibrations analysis
Jan 2018 – Aug 2018
Tremec – NVH Engineer
NVH optimization in de development and production of Dual Clutch Transmissions
Oct 2013 – Present
University of Ghent
Visiting Professor, Feb 2018 – Present
Teaching Machine Optimization and Machinery Fault Diagnosis
Postdoctoral Assistant, Oct 2016 – Dec 2017
Continuing research on rotordynamics and teaching about Machine Optimization
Research and Teaching assistant, Oct 2013 – Sep 2016
PhD on rotordynamics and teaching about Machine Optmization
Oct 2009 – Sep 2013
Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Research and Teaching assistant
Research on efficiency of electric machines, PhD on rotordynamics, teaching about mechanical vibrations
Jul 2018 – Dec 2018
Deba – Project engineer
Planning of Medium Voltage switchgear and installations
Education
2010 – 2016
University of Ghent
PhD in Electromechanical Engineering
2004 – 2008
Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Master in Electromechanical Engineering
Licences & Certifications
TypeValid until
26/07/2022
ISO 18436-1 CAT III Vibration analist
BA4/BA5 certification HD 384.3 3227/09/2026
Veiligheid, Gezondheid en Milieu Checklist Aannemers VCA-VOL10/12/2031
Relevant teaching experience
- Academic teaching in: machine optimization, mechanical vibrations, noise, machinery fault diagnosis
(Ghent University, 2009 – Now)
- Electrical Signature Analysis, Vibration Analysis, Operational Deflection Shape Analysis and Modal Analysis
(Orbits, 2018 – present)
Relevant practical experience
Involved in many industrial diagnostic troublseshooting cases for many international companies active in the sectors of petrochemics, pharmaceutics, energy production, steel manufacturers, marine and offshore…
Summary of relevant publications
Academic
- Derammelaere, S., Vervisch, B., De Viaene, J., Stockman, K. Sensorless load angle control for two-phase hybrid stepper motors. Mechatronics, 43, 6-17 (2017)
- Janssens, O., Slavkovikj, V., Vervisch, B., et al. Convolutional Neural Network Based Fault Detection for Rotating Machinery. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 377, 331-345 (2016)
- Vervisch, Bram, Stijn Derammelaere, Kurt Stockman, et al. “On the Experimental Prediction of the Stability Threshold Speed Caused by Rotating Damping.”Ed. H. Ouyang. Journal of Sound And Vibration (2016)
- Nevaranta, Niko, Stijn Derammelaere, Jukka Parkkinen, et al. “Online Identification of a Mechanical System in Frequency Domain Using Sliding DFT.”IEEE Transacations on Industrial Electronics (2016)
- Vervisch, Bram, Kurt Stockman, and Mia Loccufier. “Estimation of the Damping Matrix in Rotating Machinery for the Calculation of the Stability Threshold Speed.” International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics (2014)
- Derammelaere, Stijn, Bram Vervisch, Johannes Cottyn, et al. “The Efficiency of Hybrid Stepping Motors: Analyzing the Impact of Control Algorithms.”IEEE Industry Applications Magazine (2014): 50-60.
Non – academic
- Corne, Bram, Bram Vervisch. Acquiring drive train insights by using the electric motor as a lateral and torsional vibration sensor. Technical white paper Samotics 2020.
