On-site investigations and root cause analysis
Purpose
Noise and vibration problems are often complicated and may lead to human fatigue or severe failure of machinery and equipment.
Benefits
Noise and vibration trouble shooting may involve many technical disciplines. DNV may benefit from in-house knowledge covering all technical disciplines relevant for noise and vibration trouble shooting. DNV has a pool of people working with noise and vibration measurements and analysis. Assistance may be given to customers in all parts of the world within a short time window. By using DNV for noise and vibration trouble shooting, off-hire time will be kept to a minimum.
Features
DNV offers technical advisory services to assist designers, owners, yards and operators to identify the root cause of the problem and to provide practical and cost effective solutions. The service is available for the maritime and offshore industry and is usually performed in the following manner.
- On-site investigation and measurements DNV has wide experience within the field of noise and vibration measurements. Physical quantities such as noise, underwater noise, vibration, pressure and stress may be measured and subjected to advanced mathematical processing
- Post processing and analysis Complicated problems need advanced analysis. Measurements may be presented as different types of spectra or animation, depending on the problem in question
- Practical and cost effective solution is provided based on the analysis. DNV has a long experience within the field of noise and vibration problem solving, working in close cooperation with clients