Rolling element bearing fault diagnosis for rotating machinery using vibration spectrum imaging and convolutional neural networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 106 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1737-1751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelraouf Youcef Khodja ◽  
Noureddine Guersi ◽  
Mohamed Nacer Saadi ◽  
Nadir Boutasseta
Author(s):  
Wenbing Tu ◽  
Jinwen Yang ◽  
Wennian Yu ◽  
Ya Luo

The vibration response of rolling element bearing has a close relation with its fault. An accurate evaluation of the bearing vibration response is essential to the bearing fault diagnosis. At present, most bearing dynamics models are built based on rigid assumptions, which may not faithfully reveal the dynamic characteristics of bearing in the presence of fault. Moreover, previous similar works mainly focus on the fault with a specified size without considering the varying contact characteristics as the fault evolves. This paper developed an explicit dynamics finite element model for the bearing with three types of raceway faults considering the flexibility of each bearing component in order to accurately study the contact characteristic and vibration mechanism of defective bearings in the process of fault evolution. The developed model is validated by comparing its simulation results with both analytical and experimental results. The dynamic contact patterns between the rolling elements and the fault, the additional displacement due to the fault and the faulty characteristics within the bearing vibration signal during the fault evolution process are investigated. The analysis results from this work can provide practitioners an in-depth understanding towards the internal contact characteristics with the existence of raceway fault and theoretical basis for rolling bearing fault diagnosis.


2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (14) ◽  
pp. 4013-4022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keheng Zhu ◽  
Liang Chen ◽  
Xiong Hu

Multi-scale fuzzy entropy (MFE) is a recently developed non-linear dynamic parameter for measuring the complexity of vibration signals of rolling element bearing over different scales. However, the calculation of fuzzy entropy (FuzzyEn) in each scale ignores the sequence’s global characteristics while the bearing vibration signals’ global fluctuation may vary as the bearing runs under different states. Therefore, in this paper, the multi-scale global fuzzy entropy (MGFE) method is put forward for extracting the fault features from the bearing vibration signals. After the feature extraction, multiple class feature selection (MCFS) method is introduced to select the most informative features from the high-dimensional feature vector. Then, a new rolling element bearing fault diagnosis approach is proposed based on MGFE, MCFS and support vector machine (SVM). The experimental results indicate that the proposed approach can effectively fulfill the fault diagnosis of rolling element bearing and has good classification performance.


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