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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:

Wang KS, Heyns PS: 2011. An empirical re-sampling method on intrinsic mode function to deal with speed variation in machine fault diagnostics. Applied Soft Computing, 11, pp 5015-5027, Full Text

Pal S, Heyns PS, Freyer BH, Theron NJ, Pal SK: 2011. Tool wear monitoring and selection of optimum cutting conditions with progressive tool wear effect and input uncertainties. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 22, pp 491-504.

Aye SA, Heyns PS: 2011. The evaluation of whole-body vibration in a South African opencast mine. Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 111, pp 751-757, Full Text

Wang KS, Heyns PS: 2011. The combined use of order tracking techniques for enhanced Fourier analysis of order components. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 25, pp 803-811, Full Text

Wang KS, Heyns PS: 2011. Application of computed order tracking, Vold-Kalman filtering and EMD in rotating machine vibration. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 25, pp 416-430, Full Text

Oberholster AJ, Heyns PS: 2011. Eulerian laser Doppler vibrometry: Online blade damage identification on a multi-blade test rotor. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 25, pp 344-359.

Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:

Dymond ASD, Engelbrecht AP, Heyns PS: 2011. The Sensitivity of Single Objective Optimization Algorithm Control Parameter Values under different Computational Constraints. In 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), (3), IEEE, pp 1-8 CD.

Mbawala SJ, Heymann G, Roth CP, Heyns PS: 2011. Numerical modelling of wave propogation in ground using non-reflecting boundaries. In Proceedings of the 15th African regional conference on soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, (4), IOS press, pp 644-652.

 

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