A Hybrid Method for Detection and Diagnosis of Faulty Roller Bearings

2019 ◽  
Vol 795 ◽  
pp. 473-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Xu ◽  
Zhan Si Jiang ◽  
Hui Jiang

There are few research on bearing fault detection and diagnosis which combine constant speed with variable speed. In this paper, a hybrid method is proposed to realize the nondestructive testing and fault diagnosis of roller bearing faults. First, adopts computed order tracking (COT) and variational mode decomposition (VMD) based order spectrum method to detect bearing faults under variable speed condition. Then, by using the method of VMD-based envelope spectrum analysis, we analyze a certain speed signal which is consistent with the velocity in the condition of variable speed, and verify the analysis under the condition of variable speed. The experimental results show that the method can realize the effective diagnosis of the fault bearing.

2012 ◽  
Vol 459 ◽  
pp. 233-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Tao Li ◽  
Hui Li

A novel method to fault diagnosis of bearing based on empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and envelope spectrum is presented. EMD method is self-adaptive to non-stationary and non-linear signal. The methodology developed in this paper decomposes the original vibration signal in intrinsic oscillation modes, using the empirical mode decomposition. Then the envelope spectrum is applied to the selected intrinsic mode function that stands for the bearing faults. The basic principle is firstly introduced in detail. Then the EMD is applied in the research of the fault detection and diagnosis of the bearing. The experimental results show that the proposed method based on EMD and envelope spectrum analysis technique can effectively diagnose the faults of bearing.


Author(s):  
Z Zhang ◽  
M Entezami ◽  
E Stewart ◽  
C Roberts

This paper introduces a new signal processing algorithm for vibration-based fault detection and diagnosis of roller bearings. The methodology proposed in this paper is based on the combination of two data-adaptive techniques which are further enhanced through the use of an automatic feature identification mechanism. The new technique, introduced as empirical mode envelope with minimum entropy, combines elements from the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and minimum entropy deconvolution (MED) approaches with an energy moment technique to improve the feature selection stage of the EMD algorithm. This improvement allows the processing chain to identify early stage roller bearing faults in noisier signals. The energy moment technique is used to automatically identify the most appropriate intrinsic mode function from the EMD process prior to the MED algorithm being applied. This is in contrast to conventional approaches which tend to use the first mode or make selections based on traditional energy techniques. The combination of the adaptive techniques of EMD and MED allows the development of an improved technique for fault detection and diagnosis of signals. Combining these techniques with the energy moment approach allows further improved fault detection in complex non-stationary conditions. The processing chain has been tested using data obtained during laboratory testing. From the experimental results, it is shown that the new technique is capable of the detection of early stage (minor) roller and outer race defects found in tapered-roller-bearings rotating at a variety of speeds and noise scenarios.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moussa Hamadache ◽  
Dongik Lee ◽  
Emiliano Mucchi ◽  
Giorgio Dalpiaz

This paper addresses the application of an image recognition technique for the detection and diagnosis of ball bearing faults in rotating electrical machines (REMs). The conventional bearing fault detection and diagnosis (BFDD) methods rely on extracting different features from either waveforms or spectra of vibration signals to detect and diagnose bearing faults. In this paper, a novel vibration-based BFDD via a probability plot (ProbPlot) image recognition technique under constant and variable speed conditions is proposed. The proposed technique is based on the absolute value principal component analysis (AVPCA), namely, ProbPlot via image recognition using the AVPCA (ProbPlot via IR-AVPCA) technique. A comparison of the features (images) obtained: (1) directly in the time domain from the original raw data of the vibration signals; (2) by capturing the Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) of the vibration signals; or (3) by generating the probability plot (ProbPlot) of the vibration signals as proposed in this paper, is considered. A set of realistic bearing faults (i.e., outer-race fault, inner-race fault, and balls fault) are experimentally considered to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of the proposed ProbPlot via the IR-AVPCA method.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mourad Kedadouche ◽  
Marc Thomas ◽  
Antoine Tahan

Amplitude demodulation is a key for diagnosing bearing faults. The quality of the demodulation determines the efficiency of the spectrum analysis in detecting the defect. A signal analysis technique based on minimum entropy deconvolution (MED), empirical mode decomposition (EMD), and Teager Kaiser energy operator (TKEO) is presented. The proposed method consists in enhancing the signal by using MED, decomposing the signal in intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) and selects only the IMF which presents the highest correlation coefficient with the original signal. In this study the first IMF1 was automatically selected, since it represents the contribution of high frequencies which are first excited at the early stages of degradation. After that, TKEO is used to track the modulation energy. The spectrum is applied to the instantaneous amplitude. Therefore, the character of the bearing faults can be recognized according to the envelope spectrum. The simulation and experimental results show that an envelope spectrum analysis based on MED-EMD and TKEO provides a reliable signal analysis tool. The experimental application has been developed on acoustic emission and vibration signals recorded for bearing fault detection.


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