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Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

Heyns, PS

MIng PhD(Pret) - Professor

NRF Rating: C1

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 420 2432
Fax number: 012 362 5087
E-mail address: stephan.heyns@up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Vibration and noise

Fatigue, simulation testing and fracture mechanics

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Brennan MJ, du Plooy NF, Heyns PS: 2005. The development of a tunable vibration absorbing isolator. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 47, pp 983-997.

du Plooy NF, Heyns PS, Brennan MJ: 2005. The development of a tunable vibration absorbing isolator. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 47, pp 983-997.

Cronje JM, Heyns PS, Theron NJ, Loveday PW: 2005. Development of a variable stiffness and damping tunable vibration isolator. Journal of Vibration and Control, 11, pp 381-396.

Stander CJ, Heyns PS: 2005. Instantaneous angular speed monitoring of gearboxes under non-cyclic stationary load conditions. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 19, pp 817-835.

Scheffer C, Engelbrecht H, Heyns PS: 2005. A comparative evaluation of neural networks and hidden Markov models for monitoring turning tool wear. Neural Computing & Applications, 14 / Jun, pp 325-336.

Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:

Hugo D, Heyns PS, Thompson RJ, Visser AT: 2005. Haul road condition monitoring using vehicle response measurements. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Twelth International Congress on Sound and Vibration, pp 1-8.

 

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