Vibration characteristics of the gear shaft-bearing system with compound defects under variable operating conditions

Author(s):  
Peng Dai ◽  
Jianping Wang ◽  
Shuping Yan ◽  
Shengzhou Huang ◽  
Fengtao Wang ◽  
...  

Due to the variable working conditions, there are compound defects in the gear shaft-bearing system easily, vibration signals are very complex, and the fault diagnosis of the system becomes more difficult. Thus, a 36 degrees of freedom (36-DOFs) dynamic model is established for discussing the vibration characteristics of the gear shaft-bearing system, the gear pair spalling defect is considered, there are localized defects on the inner raceway and outer raceway of the supporting bearing, the work conditions contain variable speed, variable load, speed fluctuation, and load fluctuation. The obtained vibration signal is processed by the short-time Fourier transform for the time–frequency distribution map. When the gear shaft-bearing system with compound defects operates under variable conditions, roller passing outer raceway frequency, roller passing inner raceway frequency, gearing meshing frequency, and the relative harmonic frequencies can also be found. The defect frequencies and frequency amplitude are increasing with the speed while the system makes the accelerated movement. While the load acting on the system increases, the defect frequencies remain unchanged, but the frequency amplitude becomes larger. If there are fluctuations of the speed and load, the apparent defect frequency fluctuation and amplitude fluctuation is generated. The mathematical model and the analysis results are verified by the experiment, which will provide the theoretical basis for the fault diagnosis of the gear shaft-bearing system.

Author(s):  
Xiaotong Tu ◽  
Yue Hu ◽  
Fucai Li

Vibration monitoring is an effective method for mechanical fault diagnosis. Wind turbines usually operated under varying-speed condition. Time-frequency analysis (TFA) is a reliable technique to handle such kind of nonstationary signal. In this paper, a new scheme, called current-aided TFA, is proposed to diagnose the planetary gearbox. This new technique acquires necessary information required by TFA from a current signal. The current signal is firstly used to estimate the rotating speed of the shaft. These parameters are applied to the demodulation transform to obtain a rough time-frequency distribution (TFD). Finally, the synchrosqueezing method further enhances the concentration of the obtained TFD. The validation and application of the proposed method are presented by a simulated signal and a vibration signal captured from a test rig.


2020 ◽  
pp. 107754632094971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoucong Xiong ◽  
Shuai He ◽  
Jianping Xuan ◽  
Qi Xia ◽  
Tielin Shi

Modern machinery becomes more precious with the advance of science, and fault diagnosis is vital for avoiding economical losses or casualties. Among massive diagnosis methods, deep learning algorithms stand out to open an era of intelligent fault diagnosis. Deep residual networks are the state-of-the-art deep learning models which can continuously improve performance by deepening the network structures. However, in vibration-based fault diagnosis, the transient property instability of vibration signal usually calls for time–frequency analysis methods, and the characters of time–frequency matrices are distinct from standard images, which brings some natural limitations for the diagnosis performance of deep learning algorithms. To handle this issue, an enhanced deep residual network named the multilevel correlation stack-deep residual network is proposed in this article. Wavelet packet transform is used to preprocess the sensor signal, and then the proposed multilevel correlation stack-deep residual network uses kernels with different shapes to fully dig various kinds of useful information from any local regions of the processed input. Experiments on two rolling bearing datasets are carried out. Test results show that the multilevel correlation stack-deep residual network exhibits a more satisfactory classification performance than original deep residual networks and other similar methods, revealing significant potentials for realistic fault diagnosis applications.


Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Xue ◽  
Nan Zhang ◽  
Suqun Cao ◽  
Wei Jiang ◽  
Jianzhong Zhou ◽  
...  

Fault identification under variable operating conditions is a task of great importance and challenge for equipment health management. However, when dealing with this kind of issue, traditional fault diagnosis methods based on the assumption of the distribution coherence of the training and testing set are no longer applicable. In this paper, a novel state identification method integrated by time-frequency decomposition, multi-information entropies, and joint distribution adaptation is proposed for rolling element bearings. At first, fast ensemble empirical mode decomposition was employed to decompose the vibration signals into a collection of intrinsic mode functions, aiming at obtaining the multiscale description of the original signals. Then, hybrid entropy features that can characterize the dynamic and complexity of time series in the local space, global space, and frequency domain were extracted from each intrinsic mode function. As for the training and testing set under different load conditions, all data was mapped into a reproducing space by joint distribution adaptation to reduce the distribution discrepancies between datasets, where the pseudolabels of the testing set and the final diagnostic results were obtained by the k-nearest neighbor algorithm. Finally, five cases with the training and testing set under variable load conditions were used to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method, and comparisons with some other diagnosis models combined with the same features and other dimensionality reduction methods were also discussed. The analysis results show that the proposed method can effectively recognize the multifaults of rolling element bearings under variable load conditions with higher accuracies and has sound practicability.


2020 ◽  
pp. 107754632093203
Author(s):  
Hongdi Zhou ◽  
Fei Zhong ◽  
Tielin Shi ◽  
Wuxing Lai ◽  
Jian Duan ◽  
...  

Rolling bearings are present ubiquitously in industrial fields; timely fault diagnosis is of crucial significance in avoiding serious catastrophe. The extraction of ideal fault feature is a challenging task in vibration-based bearing fault detection. In this article, a novel method called class-information–incorporated kernel entropy component analysis is proposed for bearing fault diagnosis. The method is developed based on the Hebbian learning theory of neural network and the kernel entropy component analysis which attempts to compress the most Renyi quadratic entropy of input dataset after dimension reduction and presents a good performance for nonlinear feature extraction. Class-information–incorporated kernel entropy component analysis can take advantage of the label information of training samples to guide dimensional reduction and still follow the same simple mathematical formulation as kernel entropy component analysis. The high-dimensional feature dataset including time-domain, frequency-domain, and time–frequency domain characteristic parameters is first derived from the vibration signals. Then, the intrinsic geometric features are extracted by class-information–incorporated kernel entropy component analysis, and a classification strategy based on fusion information is applied to recognize different operating conditions of bearings. The experimental results demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.


2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pan Hong ◽  
Zheng Yuan

A vibration-based fault diagnosis method of pump units based on wavelet packet transform (WPT) is proposed in this paper. Compared with Fourier transform (FT) and wavelet transform (WT), WPT can subdivide the whole time-frequency domain. It can perform signals with good time resolution at high frequency and vice versa. WPT is considered as a good tool to signal denoising, accounting for its perfect ability in decomposing and reconstructing signal and its characteristic of no redundancy and divulges after denoising. In addition, WPT modulus maximal coefficient provides a simple but accurate method in calculating the Lipschitz exponents, which is the measurement of signal singularity. According to the singularity analysis results of vibration signal, we can recognize the fault pattern of pump units. This paper makes a detail research on signal denoising and singularity analysis based on WPT. Taking the main shaft and thrust bearing vibration signal for example, the experimental results show that WPT is effectively in the fault diagnosis system of pump unit.


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (15) ◽  
pp. 3338-3347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianhua Cai ◽  
Xiaoqin Li

Gears are the most important transmission modes used in mining machinery, and gear faults can cause serious damage and even accidents. In the work process, vibration signals are influenced not only by friction, nonlinear stiffness, and nonstationary loads, but also by strong noise. It is difficult to separate the useful information from the noise, which brings some trouble to the fault diagnosis of mining machinery gears. The generalized S transform has the advantages of the short time Fourier transform and wavelet transform and is reversible. The time–frequency energy distribution of the gear vibration signal can be accurately presented by the generalized S transform, and a time–frequency filter factor can be constructed to filter the vibration signal in the time–frequency domain. These characteristics play an important role when the generalized S transform is used to remove the noise in the time–frequency domain. In this paper, a new gear fault diagnosis based on the time–frequency domain de-noising is proposed that uses the generalized S transform. The application principle, method steps, and evaluation index of the method are presented, and a wavelet soft-threshold filtering method is implemented for comparison with the proposed approach. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by numerical simulation and experimental investigation of a gear with a tooth crack. Our analyses also indicate that the proposed method can be used for fault diagnosis of mining machinery gears.


Author(s):  
Rosario Miceli ◽  
Yasser Gritli ◽  
Antonino Di Tommaso ◽  
Fiorenzo Filippetti ◽  
Claudio Rossi

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a diagnosis technique, for rotor broken bar in double cage induction motor, based on advanced use of wavelet transform analysis. The proposed technique is experimentally validated. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed approach is based on a combined use of frequency sliding and wavelet transform analysis, to isolate the contribution of the rotor fault components issued from vibration signals in a single frequency band. Findings – The proposed technique is reliable for tracking the rotor fault components over time-frequency domain. The quantitative analysis results based on this technique are the proof of its robustness. Research limitations/implications – The validity of the proposed diagnosis approach is not limited to the analysis under steady-state operating conditions, but also for time-varying conditions where rotor fault components are spread in a wide frequency range. Practical implications – The developed approach is best suited for automotive or high power traction systems, in which safe-operating and availability are mandatory. Originality/value – The paper presents a diagnosis technique for rotor broken bar in double cage induction motor base on advanced use of wavelet transform which allows the extraction of the most relevant rotor fault component issued from axial vibration signal and clamping it in a single frequency bandwidth, avoiding confusions with other components and false interpretations.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1039 ◽  
pp. 169-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.S. Kumar ◽  
P. Srinivasa Pai ◽  
N.S. Sriram ◽  
G.S. Vijay

Condition monitoring (CM) and fault diagnosis of equipments has gained greater attention in recent years, due to the need to reduce the down time and enhance the life/ condition of the equipments. The rolling element bearings (REB) are the most critical components in rotary machines. Hence, bearing fault detection and diagnosis is an integral part of the preventive maintenance activity. Vibration signal analysis provides wide range of information for analysis. So in this paper, vibration signals for four conditions of a deep groove ball bearing namely Normal (N), bearing with defect on inner race (IR), bearing with defect on ball (B), and bearing with defect on outer race (OR) have been acquired from a customized bearing test rig under maximum speed and variable load conditions. Depending on the machinery operating conditions and the extent of bearing defect severity, the measured vibration signals are non-stationary in nature. Non-stationary signals are effectively analyzed by wavelet transform technique, which is a popular and widely used time-frequency technique. The focus of this paper is to select a best possible mother wavelet for applying WT on bearing vibration signals. The two selection criteria includes minimum Shannon entropycriteria(MSEC) and Maximum Energy to Shannon Entropy Ratio criteriaR(s). This helps in effective bearing CM using WT.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Peng-yuan Liu ◽  
Bing Li ◽  
Cui-e Han ◽  
Feng Wang

A novel feature extraction and selection scheme is presented for intelligent engine fault diagnosis by utilizing two-dimensional nonnegative matrix factorization (2DNMF), mutual information, and nondominated sorting genetic algorithms II (NSGA-II). Experiments are conducted on an engine test rig, in which eight different engine operating conditions including one normal condition and seven fault conditions are simulated, to evaluate the presented feature extraction and selection scheme. In the phase of feature extraction, theStransform technique is firstly utilized to convert the engine vibration signals to time-frequency domain, which can provide richer information on engine operating conditions. Then a novel feature extraction technique, named two-dimensional nonnegative matrix factorization, is employed for characterizing the time-frequency representations. In the feature selection phase, a hybrid filter and wrapper scheme based on mutual information and NSGA-II is utilized to acquire a compact feature subset for engine fault diagnosis. Experimental results by adopted three different classifiers have demonstrated that the proposed feature extraction and selection scheme can achieve a very satisfying classification performance with fewer features for engine fault diagnosis.


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