A Quick Search Strategy for Multiple Fault Diagnosis of Turbomachinery
Fault diagnosis is an important research issue in rotordynamics. Unbalance is one of the most frequent faults occurs in turbomachinery. A quick search strategy for model-based diagnosis is proposed in this paper to identify both locations and amounts of multiple unbalances by using the unbalance responses at the bearing locations under one specified rotating speed. Effects of measurement noise are analyzed and robustness of the proposed method is validated by means of numerical results. The reason for quick searching is non-repeatedly counting the found faults, and the computational time is saved. This method is suitable for on-line monitoring the gradual changes of unbalance on rotating machines; especially those required fixedly operating speeds.