The mission of the Laboratory of Rotating Machinery - LAMAR is to gather students, researchers, and industry from Brazil and around the world together for the exchange of knowledge associated with rotating machinery problems. In doing so, the common vision is now open to a wide range of topics of research, strongly related to the scientific development of rotating machines. Classic targets are always of interest due to the continuous demand for higher operational standards, involving components modeling and design, such as all kinds of radial and thrust bearings - fluid film lubrication, rolling elements, floating ring, magnetic principle, as well as flux seals, and flexible couplings. Some classic effects are also involved with innovative technologies, such as methods to improve low and high-speed balancing, instabilities (whirl/whip, rubbing), vibration control, sensoring, experimental and operational modal analysis, parameters identification, rotor-structure interaction, model reduction, and Multiphysics models in rotating machines. However, dynamic and stability analysis are now facing a new digital era of experiments and testing, involving big data management for condition monitoring, fault diagnosis, and prognosis – bearing wear, cracks, cavitation, starvation, etc. - uncertainties analysis, reliability, and life predictions in rotating machinery. Active components are now crucial for robust and fault-tolerant control. Digital twins of rotating machines, artificial intelligence, and machine learning become targets to be pursued and applied. Green energy, storage and conversion are of imperative concern in the world, bringing subjects in vibration and dynamics of geared systems, hydraulic and wind turbines, turbochargers, on-shore, and off-shore power plants. The LAMAR also aims to inspire undergraduate and graduate students, fostering common projects among them and facilitating interchange possibilities through partnerships with several countries. 

The UNICAMP's Laboratory of Rotating Machines originated in the Mechanical Design Department of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty in 1993 with the structuring of the first computational package for rotor analysis, developed by masters and doctoral students, as well as undergraduates in scientific initiation projects, based on the doctoral works of researchers Katia Lucchesi Cavalca (member of LAMAR) and Franco Giuseppe Dedini (today member of LABSIN) at the Politecnico di Milano (1990-1993).

In 1996, the first FAPESP project contributed to the construction of the inertial base and the first test bench that is still operating in the laboratory today. In this period, the physical space was limited to a test bench in a communal area of the department, shared with three other faculty members, and computers available in a faculty room.

In 1998, the laboratory’s first participation occurred in the IFToMM Rotordynamics congress, held in Darmstadt, Germany. In 2002, two papers were presented in the same congress, this time in Sydney, Australia, when the laboratory was invited to join the IFToMM (International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science) technical committee on Rotordynamics as a full member. After submission of academic documentation and subsequent analysis by the committee, UNICAMP-FEM became a formal member of the federation, with the nomination as a full member during the IMech E VIRM (Institute of Mechanical Engineering - Vibration in Rotating Machinery) congress in 2004, in which three of the group's papers were presented.

During this period, from 1993 to 2004, 33 undergraduate research orientations, twelve master's theses, and 3 doctoral dissertations were completed. So far, ten articles have been published in refereed journals.

In 2004, the complete instrumentation of the test bench was concluded with research project funding by FAPESP. In the same year, two important international partnerships were established: the research agreement with the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, which lasted until 2020, and the first PROBRAL CAPES-DAAD project with the Technical University of Darmstadt for the exchange of faculty, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. This cooperation was continued through a Fapesp-DFG project in 2008, followed by a new PROBRAL project in 2010. In this period, the second test bench, dedicated to oscillating segment bearings and heavier assemblies, was built and instrumented, as well as the first of several magnetic actuators, fully designed and manufactured by the LAMAR group at UNICAMP. 

Between the years 2005 and 2015, 34 scientific initiation orientations, twenty-eight master's dissertations, and 8 doctoral orientations were completed, in addition to five post-doctoral supervisions. This period was marked by the completion of doctoral studies of three faculty members who integrate the LAMAR team since their master's or scientific initiation works: Prof. Dr. Hélio Fiori de Castro (2007), Prof. Dr. Gregory Bregion Daniel (2012), and Prof. Dr. Tiago Henrique Machado (2014). There were also twenty-eight articles published in refereed journals.

Partnerships have also been established with companies for research funding, through scholarships for scientific initiation, master’s, and doctorate degrees. They are: Schaeffler Brasil Ltda, BorgWarner do Brasil, ThyssenKrupp Metalúrgica Campo Limpo, SIME - Grupo Vulkan do Brasil, SENAI-Siemens cooperation, CTMSP-São Paulo, and Petrobras - CENPES - Rio de Janeiro.

In 2016, the thematic project in Fault Tolerant Control opened new perspectives to the LAMAR group, with the approach of new partners such as the Technical University of Denmark (TUD), University of Bath – in the UK, and Texas Tech University - Lubbock – in the USA, the latter resulting in a UNICAMP-TTU Sprint project in 2019, in Condition Monitoring and Prognosis of Bearings considering Uncertainties. Individual Fapesp projects of the three new faculty members also added in an expressive way to the structure and research of LAMAR, in this same period, besides a CNPq Universal Call project. Also in 2018, two new projects were established with Petrobras - CENPES - São José dos Campos, one of 3 years, and one of 5 years. In the period from 2016 to the first half of 2022, twenty-two scientific initiations, twenty-three master's dissertations, and 11 doctoral theses were completed, in addition to 4 post-doctoral degrees. A total of fifty-eight articles have been published in refereed international journals.

Currently, LAMAR has two PQ2 fellows and one CNPq 1A fellow.