scholarly journals A Hybrid Time-Frequency Analysis Method for Railway Rolling-Element Bearing Fault Diagnosis

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Yao Cheng ◽  
Dong Zou ◽  
Weihua Zhang ◽  
Zhiwei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Frequency Analysis ◽  
Rolling Element Bearings ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Local Mean Decomposition ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Fm Signals ◽  
Rolling Element ◽  
Local Mean ◽  
Fault Information

The health condition of rolling-element bearings is important for machine performance and operating safety. Due to external interferences, the impulse-related fault information is always buried in the raw vibration signal. To solve this problem, a hybrid time-frequency analysis method combining ensemble local mean decomposition (ELMD) and the Teager-Kaiser energy operator (TKEO) is proposed for the fault diagnosis of high-speed train bearings. The ELMD method is a significant improvement over local mean decomposition (LMD) for addressing the mode-mixing problem. The TKEO method is effective for separating amplitude-modulated (AM) and frequency-modulated (FM) signals from a raw signal. But it is only valid for monocomponent AM-FM signals. The proposed time-frequency method integrates the advantages of ELMD and TKEO to detect localized defects in rolling-element bearings. First, a raw signal is decomposed into an ensemble of PFs and a residual component using ELMD. A novel sensitive parameter (SP) is introduced to select the sensitive PF that contains the most fault-related information. Subsequently, the TKEO is applied to extract both the amplitude and frequency modulations from the selected PF. The experimental results of rolling element and outer race fault signals confirmed that the proposed method could effectively recover fault information from raw signals contaminated by strong noise and other interferences.

Gear Pitting Corrosion Fault Diagnosis Based on Local Mean Decomposition

2012 ◽  
Vol 562-564 ◽  
pp. 812-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya Nong Chen ◽  
Tian He ◽  
Deng Hong Xiao ◽  
Hai Tao Cui
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Pitting Corrosion ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Local Mean Decomposition ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Gear Fault ◽  
Modulation Signal ◽  
Adaptive Time ◽  
Local Mean

The local mean decomposition (LMD), a new adaptive time-frequency analysis method, is the research focus in the fault diagnosis field in recent years. In this paper, the LMD’s characteristics are obtained by processing multi-component frequency and amplitude modulation signal, which are usually used to describe the gear pitting corrosion fault signals. Base on the simulation analysis, LMD is presented to deal with the vibration signals of gear pitting corrosion fault, comparing with traditional method. The results show that the gear pitting corrosion defect can be diagnosed by LMD effectively, and LMD can eliminate the false composition effect, thus improving the accuracy of gear fault diagnosis.

Wigner–Ville distribution based on cyclic spectral density and the application in rolling element bearings diagnosis

2011 ◽  
Vol 225 (12) ◽  
pp. 2831-2847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Zhou ◽  
J Chen ◽  
G M Dong ◽  
W B Xiao ◽  
Z Y Wang
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Spectral Density ◽  
Wigner Distribution ◽  
Rolling Element Bearing ◽  
Rolling Element Bearings ◽  
Accurate Analysis ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Bearing Fault ◽  
Rolling Element ◽  
Cross Terms

The vibration signals of rolling element bearings are random cyclostationary when they have faults. Also, statistical properties of the signals change periodically with time. The accurate analysis of time-varying signals is an essential pre-requisite for the fault diagnosis and hence safe operation of rolling element bearings. The Wigner distribution is probably most widely used among the Cohen’s class in order to describe how the spectral content of a signal changes over time. However, the basic nature of such signals causes significant interfering cross-terms, which do not permit a straightforward interpretation of the energy distribution. To overcome this difficulty, the Wigner–Ville distribution (WVD) based on the cyclic spectral density (CSD) is discussed in this article. It is shown that the improved WVD, based on CSD of a long time series, can render the time–frequency distribution less susceptible to noise, and restrain the cross-terms in the time–frequency domain. Simulation and experiment of the rolling element-bearing fault diagnosis are performed, and the results indicate the validity of WVD based on CSD in time–frequency analysis for bearing fault detection.

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