A generalized health indicator for performance degradation assessment of rolling element bearings based on graph spectrum reconstruction and spectrum characterization

Measurement ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 109165
Author(s):  
Xin Wang ◽  
Lingli Cui ◽  
Huaqing Wang ◽  
Hong Jiang
2019 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 003685041989219
Author(s):  
Li Cheng ◽  
Xintao Xia ◽  
Liang Ye

Rolling element bearings are used in all rotating machinery, and the degradation performance of rolling element bearings directly affects the performance of the machine. Therefore, high reliability prediction of the performance degradation trend of rolling element bearings has become an urgent research problem. However, the degradation characteristics of the rolling element bearings vibration time series are difficult to extract, and the mechanism of performance degradation is very complicated. The accurate physical model is difficult to establish. In view of the above reasons, based on the vibration performance data of rolling element bearings, a model of bearing performance degradation trend parameter based on wavelet denoising and Weibull distribution is established. Then, the phase space reconstruction of the series of bearing performance degradation trend parameter is carried out, and the prognosis is obtained by the improved adding weighted first-order local prediction method. The experimental results show that the bearing vibration performance degradation parameter can accurately depict the degradation trend of the bearing, and the reliability level is 91.55%; and the prediction of bearing performance degradation trend parameter is satisfactory: the mean relative error is only 0.0053% and the maximum relative error is less than 0.03%.


Author(s):  
Keheng Zhu ◽  
Xigeng Song

Exploring effective indicators is significant for the assessment of the bearing performance degradation, which is crucial to realize the condition-based maintenance. In this paper, the cross-fuzzy entropy is introduced and is used to measure the similarity of patterns between normal signals and tested signals of the rolling element bearings, and the degree of similarity is used as an indicator of the bearing performance degradation. The original cross-fuzzy entropy focuses on the local characteristics of the signal and neglects its global trend. However, the global characteristics and global trends of bearing vibration signals may vary as the bearings degrade gradually. Therefore, a change has been made in the implementation of the original cross-fuzzy entropy algorithm to overcome this limitation and the modified cross-fuzzy entropy is more suitable for reflecting the whole degradation process of rolling element bearings. The experimental results demonstrate that the modified cross-fuzzy entropy can assess the bearing performance degradation process over their whole life time clearly and effectively.


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (14) ◽  
pp. 3194-3205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keheng Zhu

Performance degradation assessment is crucial to realize equipment’s near-zero downtime and maximum productivity. In this paper, a new method for performance degradation assessment of rolling element bearings is proposed based on hierarchical entropy (HE) and general distance. First, considering the nonlinear dynamic characteristics of bearing vibration signals, the HE method is utilized to extract feature vectors, which can obtain more bearing state information hidden in the vibration signals than sample entropy (SampEn) and multi-scale entropy (MSE). Then, the general distance between the feature vectors of the normal data and those of the tested data is designed as a degradation indicator by combining Euclidean distance and cosine angle distance. The experimental results indicate that this indicator can detect the incipient defects well and can effectively reflect the whole degradation process of rolling element bearings. Moreover, the designed indicator has some advantages over kurtosis and root mean square (RMS) values.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1207 (1) ◽  
pp. 012012
Author(s):  
Shiwei Yan ◽  
Haining Liu ◽  
Fajia Li ◽  
Huanyong Cui

Abstract Rolling element bearings are widely used in rotating machinery. Bearing faults will result in damage to property. So, the condition monitoring of bearings is of great significance, but few methods can achieve both degradation assessment and fault diagnosis. In this paper, an integrated condition monitoring method for rolling element bearings based on perceptual vibration hashing (PVH) and self-organizing maps (SOM) is proposed. Distance matric based on PVH is used as a health indicator for degradation assessment, in which the baseline of healthy state is selected based on the clustering centre of SOM instead of experience. When the value of health indicator exceeds the pre-set threshold, visualized fault diagnosis can also be achieved by training the SOM network. The effectiveness of the developed method is verified with the vibration data from accelerated degradation tests of rolling element bearings.


2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 219-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keheng Zhu ◽  
Xiaohui Jiang ◽  
Liang Chen ◽  
Haolin Li

Abstract Rolling element bearings are an important unit in the rotating machines, and their performance degradation assessment is the basis of condition-based maintenance. Targeting the non-linear dynamic characteristics of faulty signals of rolling element bearings, a bearing performance degradation assessment approach based on improved fuzzy entropy (FuzzyEn) is proposed in this paper. FuzzyEn has less dependence on data length and achieves more freedom of parameter selection and more robustness to noise. However, it neglects the global trend of the signal when calculating similarity degree of two vectors, and thus cannot reflect the running state of the rolling element bearings accurately. Based on this consideration, the algorithm of FuzzyEn is improved in this paper and the improved FuzzyEn is utilized as an indicator for bearing performance degradation evaluation. The vibration data from run-to-failure test of rolling element bearings are used to validate the proposed method. The experimental results demonstrate that, compared with the traditional kurtosis and root mean square, the proposed method can detect the incipient fault in advance and can reflect the whole performance degradation process more clearly.


Author(s):  
Akhand Rai ◽  
Sanjay H Upadhyay

Rolling element bearings are critical components of rotating machines since the failure of rolling element bearings may cease the functioning of the entire equipment. The damages observed due to bearing failures are expeditious in nature and hence the need to develop an effective prognostic methodology becomes a requisite to prevent the sudden machinery breakdown. The performance degradation assessment and accurate determination of remaining useful life are the two key issues in prognostics of rolling element bearings. This paper proposes a degradation indicator based on self-organising map for the performance degradation assessment of bearings and later support vector regression is utilised to estimate the remaining useful life of bearings. The time-domain and frequency domain features extracted from the raw bearing vibration signals are supplied to the self-organising map classifier to achieve the degradation index termed as self-organising map-minimum quantisation error evolution in the paper. For estimating the remaining useful life of bearings, first the central trend of minimum quantisation error is extracted to achieve the feature vector defined as bearing health index in this work. The bearing health index is then used as input and the life percentage of the bearing is set to output in order to build the support vector regression prediction model for remaining useful life estimation of bearings. The proposed method is validated on the vibration signatures collected in a bearing test rig. The results show that the advocated method can efficiently track the evolution of deterioration and predict the remaining useful life of bearings.


Entropy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 5400-5415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Zhang ◽  
Lijun Zhang ◽  
Jinwu Xu ◽  
Pingfeng Wang

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