Course Description
When machinery vibration is amplified by structural resonance, no amount of balancing or alignment will solve the problem — the structure itself must be understood. This course develops the specialised techniques of resonance identification, modal analysis, and operating deflection shape (ODS) analysis.
Participants learn to identify natural frequencies and resonances using bump tests and frequency response, visualise how structures actually move using ODS, and understand modal analysis for characterising structural dynamics. These techniques are essential for solving chronic resonance-driven vibration problems on machinery and structures.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain structural resonance and its effect on vibration
- Identify natural frequencies using bump and impact tests
- Interpret frequency response functions
- Perform and interpret operating deflection shape (ODS) analysis
- Understand the fundamentals of modal analysis
- Distinguish resonance from forcing problems
- Diagnose chronic resonance-driven vibration
- Apply solutions: stiffening, mass, damping, tuning
How the course is delivered
The course combines resonance and modal theory with practical bump testing, ODS, and modal analysis demonstrations. Real resonance problems illustrate how these techniques locate and solve structural vibration.
The programme addresses specialised techniques essential for chronic resonance problems that standard analysis cannot solve.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Senior vibration analysts and specialists
- Reliability and structural engineers
- Machinery diagnostic engineers
- Engineers solving chronic resonance problems
- Analysts advancing to specialist techniques
Daily programme
- Structural resonance and its effects
- Natural frequencies and mode shapes
- Why resonance amplifies vibration
- Resonance versus forcing
- Bump and impact testing
- Frequency response functions
- Identifying natural frequencies
- Coherence and measurement quality
- Operating deflection shape (ODS) analysis
- Visualising structural motion
- Modal analysis fundamentals
- Interpreting mode shapes
- Diagnosing chronic resonance
- Solutions: stiffening, mass, damping, tuning
- Case studies
- Workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
