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Ryan Leadbetter

PhD Student

Ryan completed his studies in mechanical engineering with first-class Honours at Curtin University in June 2019. His Honours thesis was a multidisciplinary project that used machine learning techniques to predict the forces experienced by ballerinas. The data was captured during training, and the results will be used in clinical assessment.

Ryan has most recently worked for Integrity Engineering Solutions as an undergraduate engineer in research and development, as well as in consulting for pressure vessels and pipelines. He has also had previous engineering experience from GHD and Verve Energy (now Synergy).

He has worked in diverse fields, including academic research, engineering and service industries, and the energy generation sector. He has also had exposure to data science and machine learning, biomechanics, consultancy, and research and development.

Ryan is undertaking his PhD under the supervision of Dr Aloke Phatak (Curtin). He is focusing on research in Theme 2: Support the Engineer. Ryan is currently placed with Roy Hill completing a placement on Fixed-Time Roller Replacements.

Ryan also assisted BHP with the reliability analysis of the idlers of overland conveyors to inform a fixed time replacement strategy. BHP previously performed a survival analysis of idlers, and using these results have implemented a fixed time replacement strategy on several conveyors across multiple sites.

PHD Research - Decision Support for Prognostics of Complex Systems: A Practical Approach Using Bayesian Networks.

Research on prognostic health management tools for use in condition-based maintenance policies offers to increase the availability of assets while also decreasing maintenance costs and unplanned downtime events. However, these benefits have not been seen by the mining industry because these tools are not compatible with the common industry practice of condition-based maintenance. For such benefits to be realised in the mining industry, new tools are needed that can combine heterogeneous data and expert knowledge for prognostics of complex systems. Bayesian networks are a possible approach which can fill this gap, but they have not been used to model complex mining assets for prognostic health management.

Ryan research will build a decision support system for prognostic health management that will provide clear guidelines for companies to follow in order to move towards an effective company-wide condition-based maintenance policy.

The use of a decision support system will allow engineers to:

  1. quickly assess the current and forecasted health of an asset given the available evidence and the planned operation,
  2. hypothesise which components are most likely to be contributing to poor overall asset health, and
  3. model the effects of different modes of operation on the likelihood of asset failure. This information will assist planners with critical maintenance decision making

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  • Friday 7 February 2025
    Welcome to 2025! CTMTDS is pleased to share news and highlights from the past few months IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Dr. Braden Thorne who has graduated! Braden passed his thesis with minor revisions by examiners. Sandy Spiers who has had his thesis passed with minor revisions by examiners, and has received a...
  • Friday 1 December 2023
    This month's newsletter focuses on the activities in December IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Research Fellow Eden Li on winning the Innovation and Excellence in Research award in the Australian Business Deans Council ( abdc.edu.au ) for her Data Workflow Method. The panel was impressed with the strong engagement and collaboration...
  • Friday 30 June 2023
    This newsletter focuses on the activities of the Centre during May and June; a busy time for preparing and participating in the 26th World Mining Congress in Brisbane TEAM NEWS # BHP MECoE and CTMDS researchers from Perth that travelled to the World Mining Congress took the opportunity to catch up in...
  • Thursday 11 May 2023
    Welcome to the first newsletter for 2023! We ended 2022 with two events that showcased research across our themes to industry partners. The new year began with the arrival of two new post-doctoral researchers to the Centre. In May, they teamed up with a couple of PhD students to form a...
  • Wednesday 5 October 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on Research Theme 3 - Support the decision maker. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Sandy Spiers on winning first prize for his 3 minute presentation delivered at inaugural Information Resilience PhD School held at the Global Change Institute at the UQ St Lucia Campus. September was a big...
  • Tuesday 30 August 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on Translation Theme 4 - Support the Organisation. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Tim French on his promotion to Associate Professor, School of Physics, Maths and Computing, Computer Science and Software Engineering at UWA! Team News # New members joining the Centre in August include: Manuel Cifuentes, the BHP representative...
  • Wednesday 10 August 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on the activities of Translation Theme 5. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Eden Li and Mark Griffin for winning two awards for their conference paper at the World Building Congress 2022, organised by CIB, the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction ! Their...
  • Tuesday 31 May 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on Research Theme 2 - Support the Engineer. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Braden Thorne on his paper "Reservoir time series analysis: Using the response of complex dynamical systems as a universal indicator of change", which was selected as an Editor's Pick in the journal Chaos: An...
  • Tuesday 11 January 2022
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities Aug - Dec 2021. Team Updates # Changes to the members of the Centre in the second six months of 2021: One new PhD student, Chau Nguyen, joined the Centre in October. Chau will complete his PhD at UWA within Theme 1 supervised by Tim French...
  • Wednesday 18 August 2021
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities Jan - Jun 2021. Team Updates # Changes to the members of the Centre in the first six months of 2021 include welcoming: Two new PhD students: Sandy Spiers joined the Centre in February. Sandy will complete his PhD at Curtin University within Theme 3, supervised by...
  • Wednesday 6 January 2021
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities. Highlights # Research Fellow for Theme 1 Michael Stewart PhD was accepted, congratulations to Dr Michael Stewart. Chief investigator for Theme 1 Dr Wei Lui is now Associate Professor Wei Lui – congratulations Wei.· PhD Candidates Yingying Yang, Tyler Bikaun, and Ryan Leadbetter completed their first candidacy...
  • Wednesday 12 August 2020
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities. In this issue we will be focusing on two projects conducted by PhD students while on their industry placement. Highlights # Submission of Masters Theses # Congratulation to Jaymin Moffatt and Toby Griffiths for submitting their Masters of Professional Engineering theses. Thank you to our industry...