Professor

BSME, MSME, PhD (Purdue, USA)

Office: E-26
Tel: (506) 453-5155
Fax: (506) 453-5025
E-mail

Research Interests

• Automatic Control
• Rotating Machinery
• Selected Publications:

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.
• Lyon, D.E., Meckl, P., and Nwokah, O.D.I., "Senior control systems laboratory at Purdue University", IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 71-76, 1994.
• Lou, K.N., Lyon, D.E., and Sherman, P.J., "System identification and coherence analysis in the presence of a harmonic signal", Journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 7(1) pp. 13-27, 1993.
• Sherman, P.J. and Lyon, D.E., "Hankel matrix range and null space methods for harmonic retrieval in unknown colored noise", Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Chicago, Ill., June 24-26, 1992.