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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
The following is a list of publications resulting from the research reported in this thesis: Blunt, D.M. and Forrester, B.D., Health Monitoring of Black Hawk and Seahawk Main Transmissions using Vibration Analaysis, Second Pacific International Conference on Aerospace Science and Technology - Sixth Australian Aeronautical Conference 1995, Melbourne, Australia, pp 33-40, March 1995. Forrester, B.D., Analysis of Gear Vibration in the Time-frequency Domain, in Current Practices and Trends in Mechanical Failure Prevention, compiled by H.C & S.C. Pusey, Vibration Institute, Willowbrook, Illinois, pp 225-234, April 1990. Forrester, B.D., Gear Fault Detection Using the Wigner-Ville Distribution, Transactions of Mechanical Engineering, IEAust, Vol.ME16 No. 1 - Special Issue on Vibration & Noise, pp. 73-77, July 1991. Forrester, B.D., Time-frequency analysis in machine fault detection, in TimeFrequency Signal Analysis: Methods and Applications, edited by B. Boashash, Chapter 18, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, Australia, 1992. Forrester, B.D., Time-frequency Domain Analysis of Helicopter Transmission Vibration, Propulsion Report 180, Department of Defence, Aeronautical Research Laboratory, August 1991. Forrester, B.D., Use of the Wigner-Ville Distribution in Helicopter Transmission Fault Detection, Proceedings of Australian Symposium on Signal Processing and Applications, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 78-82, April 1989.

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