Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics in Heavy-Duty Wheels: A First Experimental Approach

Author(s):  
Marco Malago` ◽  
Emiliano Mucchi ◽  
Giorgio Dalpiaz

This paper assesses and compares the effectiveness of different analysis techniques for fault detection and diagnostics in heavy-duty wheels by using vibro-acoustic data. Firstly, different defect types have been artificially created on the wheels, trying to replicate anomalies that could really happen within the manufacturing process. Hence, different sensors and test conditions have been tested in order to determine the set up that at the best highlights the anomalies of the wheels; moreover the Time Synchronous Average (TSA) has been computed to reduce measurement noise. Kurtosis statistical coefficient has been used to detect defect presence (condition monitoring step), whereas frequency analysis, time-frequency analysis and signal trend have been performed for identifying the type of defect (diagnosis step). Finally, the effectiveness and the limitations of the above-mentioned techniques and diagnostics procedures are compared and discussed in order to define a systematic control at the end of the production line.

IEEE Access ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 6400-6410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan C. Jauregui ◽  
Juvenal R. Resendiz ◽  
Suresh Thenozhi ◽  
Tibor Szalay ◽  
Adam Jacso ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 684 ◽  
pp. 124-130
Author(s):  
Hong Li ◽  
Qing He ◽  
Zhao Zhang

There is very rich fault information in vibration signals of rotating machineries. The real vibration signals are nonlinear, non-stationary and time-varying signals mixed with many other factors. It is very useful for fault diagnosis to extract fault features by using time-frequency analysis techniques. Recent researches of time-frequency analysis methods including Short Time Fourier Transform, Wavelet Transform, Wigner-Ville Distribution, Hilbert-Huang Transform, Local Mean Decomposition, and Local Characteristic-scale Decomposition are introduced. The theories, properties, physical significance and applications, advantages and disadvantages of these methods are analyzed and compared. It is pointed that algorithms improvement and combined applications of time-frequency analysis methods should be researched in the future.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Kolodziej ◽  
Jacob Chesnes

This paper presents a vibration-based condition monitoring approach for early assessment of valve wear in an industrial reciprocating compressor. Valve seat  wear is a common fault mode that is caused by repeated impact and accelerated by chatter. Seeded faults consistent with valve seat wear are installed on the head-side discharge valves of a Dresser-Rand ESH-1 industrial reciprocating compressor. Due to the cyclostationary nature of these units a time-frequency analysis is employed where targeted crank angle positions can isolate externally mounted, non-invasive, vibration measurements. A region-of-interest (ROI) is then extracted from the time-frequency analysis and used to train a suitably sized convolutional neural network (CNN). The proposed deep learning method is then compared against a similarly trained discriminant classifier using the same ROIs where features are extracted using texture and shape image statistics. Both methods achieve > 90% success with the CNN classification strategy nearing a perfect result.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 083-091
Author(s):  
Marius Singureanu ◽  
Ion Copae

The paper addresses one of the methods of diagnosing the gasoline injection engine available on the vehicle, namely signal-based diagnostics. The most used algorithms for signal-based diagnostics are highlighted. The possibilities offered on an experimental basis are presented and the tests performed in this respect are presented. Time-frequency analysis techniques are applied to detect defects caused in the case of the Audi A6 car engine.


Author(s):  
Daniel L. Stevens

Low probability of intercept radar signals, which are often problematic to detect and characterize, have as their goal ‘to see and not be seen’. Digital intercept receivers are currently moving away from Fourier-based analysis and towards classical time-frequency analysis techniques for the purpose of analyzing these low probability of intercept radar signals. Although these classical time-frequency analysis techniques are an improvement over existing Fourier-based techniques, they still suffer from a lack of readability –which can be caused by poor time-frequency localization (such as the spectrogram), which may in turn lead to inaccurate detection and parameter extraction. In this study, the reassignment method, because of its ability to improve time-frequency localization, is proposed as an improved signal analysis technique to address the poor time-frequency localization deficiency of the spectrogram. This paper presents the novel approach of characterizing low probability of intercept frequency hopping radar signals through utilization and direct comparison of the spectrogram versus the reassigned spectrogram.


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