Donald Lyon

Professor

PhD

Mechanical Engineering

Head Hall E26

Fredericton

lyon@unb.ca

1 506 453 5155

Research interests

Automatic control
Rotating machinery

Selected publications

Lyon, D.E., "A Simple Physical Explanation of the FFT, its properties, assumptions, and Limitations", P/PM Technology Vol. (11)1, pp. 48-52, February 1998.

Lyon, D.E., "Introduction to the MV Spectrum for Improved Identification Periodicities in Manchinery", P/PM Technology, Vol. (11)2, pp. 23-39, April 1998.

Lyon, D.E., Utilization of the MV based decomposition spectrum for improved specrtal estimation in rotating machinery, Proceedings of the 1998 Predictive Maintenance Technology National Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 9-12, 1998, pp. 84-91 (Vibration Analysis).

Lyon, D.E., "A Simple Physical Explanation of the FFT, its properties, assumptions, and Limitations", 1997 Predictive Maintenance Technology National Conference, Dallas, Texas, December 1-4, 1997, pp. 56-60.

Lyon, D.E., "Introduction to the MV spectra for improved identification in Rotating Machinery", 1997 Predictive Maintenance Technology National Conference, Dallas, Texas, December 1-4, 1997, pp. 61-71.

Lyon, D.E., "Thoughts on 1996 CMVA presenter's questions: In-situ balancing", Proceedings of the 16th CMVA Machinery Vibration Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, November 3-5, 1997, p.101-105.

Lyon, D.E.,"Thoughts on 1996 CMVA presenter's questions: Peakness methods for bearing fault diagnosis", Proceedings of the 16th CMVA Machinery Vibration Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, November 3-5, 1997, pp. 107-115.

Sexton, A. and Lyon, D.E., "Utilization of the MV Spectrum for Diagnosis and Estimation of Harmonic Signals", Proceedings of the 33rd Allerton Conf. On Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, Illinois, October 4-6, 1995.

Lyon, D.E., "A Comparison of Multichannel Spectral Approaches for Noise Source Identification in a Multicylinder Reciprocating Compressor", Proceedings of the 19th CMVA Machinery Vibration Seminar, Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 11-13, 1995, pp. 95-104.

Lyon, D.E., Sherman, P.J., "Practical issues concerning the family of multichannel MV Spectra for recovery of Point spectrum", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 41, No. (11), pp. 3177-3182, 1994.