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Biography
Current Position
Professor Andrew Ball is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise and Professor of Diagnostic Engineering at the University of Huddersfield.
Visiting and Honorary Appointments
- Honorary Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University
- Guest Professor, Tianjin University
- Visiting Professor, Taiyuan University of Technology
- Honorary Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology
- Honorary Professor, Beijing Information Science and Technology University
- Visiting Professor, Hebei University of Technology
Editorships
- Co-Editor-in-Chief, the Journal of Dynamics, Monitoring and Diagnostics
Awards, Prizes and Honours
- Recipient of the International Condition Monitoring Society Prize 2019
- Recipient of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing COMADIT Prize, 2020
- Elected Fellow of the Plant Health Monitoring Society
- Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration
Career History
Graduating from the University of Leeds in 1987, Andrew attained a first class honours in Mechanical Engineering, his degree having been sponsored by BICC Electronic Cables. Andrew went on to work for Ruston Gas Turbines and then gained a sponsorship from WM Engineering and the Royal Navy, enabling him to join the Total Technology Scheme at the University of Manchester, from which he graduated in 1991 with a PhD in Machinery Condition Monitoring.
Andrew then took the Shell sponsored lectureship in Maintenance Engineering at the University of Manchester; he was promoted to Professor of Maintenance Engineering in 1999, and was the Head of School of the Manchester School of Engineering from 2003 to 2004. In 2005 he became Dean of Graduate Education and in late-2007 he moved to the University of Huddersfield as Professor of Diagnostic Engineering and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise.
Over the 25 years that he has been an academic, Andrew has established the largest independent plant maintenance and diagnostics research group in the world. The Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering aims to advance the scope and sensitivity of machinery fault detection and diagnosis and of plant performance and emissions monitoring. The philosophy is to use routine instrumentation where possible, to apply sophisticated signal processing, to develop non-intrusive on-line techniques and to focus upon incipient faults with the intention of predicting future behaviour. The group works across all industry sectors from shipping to oil and gas, and it is recognised internationally for its specialism in:
- Machinery condition monitoring, fault detection and diagnosis
- Signal processing, feature extraction and pattern recognition
- Vibro-acoustic and vibro-impact analysis
- Model based and predictive methods
- Sensor development & novel measurement
- Non-intrusive parameter estimation
Andrew’s personal research expertise is in the detection and diagnosis of faults in mechanical, electrical and electro-hydraulic machines, in data analysis and signal processing, and in measurement systems and sensor development. He is the author of over 400 technical and professional publications, and he has spent a large amount of time lecturing and consulting to industry in all parts of the world.
Andrew has to date graduated more than 120 research degrees, in the fields of Mechanical, Electrical and Diagnostic Engineering. He has acted as external examiner at over 30 institutions, he holds visiting and honorary positions at 6 overseas universities, he sits on 3 large corporate scientific advisory boards, and he is also a Registered Expert Witness in 3 countries.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research Expertise and Interests
- Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis
- Vibration analysis
- Signal processing
- Fault detection
- Acoustics
- Failure analysis
- Measurement systems
- Data Analytics
- Prognostics
- Sensor Systems
- Data acquisition systems
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 3 Finished
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HARP^2: (H)olistic (A)pproach to the Design of Efficient Heat (R)ecovery Systems for Electrical (P)ower (P)roduction
1/05/18 → 30/04/21
Project: Research
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ESPRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology
Jiang, J., Blunt, L., Longstaff, A., Towns-Andrews, L., Scott, P., Myers, A., Fletcher, S. & Ball, A.
1/09/11 → 28/02/17
Project: Research
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World Class Materials Facilities at the University of Huddersfield
Ball, A., Donnelly, S., Vishnyakov, V., Hinks, J. & Greaves, G.
1/04/15 → 31/03/16
Project: Research
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A Fabry-Pérot Resonator based Metamaterial Structure for Acoustic Signal Enhancement in Machinery Condition Monitoring
Huang, S., Lin, Y., Shi, D., Deng, R., Huang, B., Gu, F. & Ball, A., 1 Feb 2025, In: Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 224, 21 p., 111986.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A metamaterials-augmented drone monitor for acoustics-based remote fault detection and diagnosis
Lin, Y., Huang, S., Deng, R., Wang, M., Zou, Z., Gu, F. & Ball, A. D., 1 Mar 2025, In: Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 226, 18 p., 112346.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Full-field extraction of subtle displacement components via phase-projection wavelet denoising for vision-based vibration measurement
Li, M., Yang, S., He, J., Gu, X., Xu, Y., Gu, F. & Ball, A. D., 1 Feb 2025, In: Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 224, 24 p., 112021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Modeling and analysis of internal excitation and vibration characteristics of gears with early-stage crack and 3D tooth surface error
Yang, L., Yue, K., Wang, L., Gu, F. & Ball, A., 1 Feb 2025, In: Engineering Failure Analysis. 168, 25 p., 109116.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Performance and emissions characteristics of hydrogen-diesel dual-fuel combustion for heavy-duty engines
Akhtar, M. U. S., Asfand, F., Khan, M. I., Mishra, R. & Ball, A., 14 Jan 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Asymmetricity diagnosis in wind turbine-based permanent magnet synchronous generators
Ali Amiri Zaniani (Speaker), Yubin Lin (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Dongqin Li (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Fengshou Gu (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Andrew Ball (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
1 Sep 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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A comparative analysis of winding distribution approach for fault simulations of induction motors
Yinghang He (Speaker), Dawei Shi (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Zhexiang Zou (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Yu Lin (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Fengshou Gu (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Andrew Ball (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
1 Sep 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Residual-based fault detection of abnormal joint running state of industrial collaborative robot
Huanqing Han (Speaker), Chiheng Huang (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Yuzhuo Song (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Dongqin Li (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Hamidreza Faham (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Fengshou Gu (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Andrew Ball (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
1 Sep 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Metamaterial structural design for low-frequency vibration attenuation in a drone-based image monitoring system
Yubin Lin (Speaker), Zujian Zhang (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Shiqing Huang (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Rongfeng Deng (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Fengshou Gu (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Andrew Ball (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
31 Aug 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Dynamic modeling and vibration analysis of rolling bearings excited by internal clearance and external loads
Kunzuo Zhong (Speaker), Zewen Zhou (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Fengshou Gu (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Andrew Ball (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
31 Aug 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press/Media
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Huddersfield joins Chinese university for engineering research network
10/06/19 → 11/06/19
7 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Energy Harvesting from Shock Absorbers to Benefit Road and Rail
Andrew Ball, Fengshou Gu, Ruichen Wang & Paul Allen
28/10/16 → 31/10/16
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Huddersfield Breakthrough Harvests Energy from a Vehicle’s Shock Absorbers
Andrew Ball & Ruichen Wang
31/10/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Researchers Perform Numerical Analysis of Complex Welding Technique
29/09/14
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment