MODELLING OF THE SPALLED ROLLING ELEMENT BEARING VIBRATION SIGNAL: AN OVERVIEW AND SOME NEW RESULTS

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID BRIE
Author(s):  
Wenbing Tu ◽  
Jinwen Yang ◽  
Wennian Yu ◽  
Ya Luo

The vibration response of rolling element bearing has a close relation with its fault. An accurate evaluation of the bearing vibration response is essential to the bearing fault diagnosis. At present, most bearing dynamics models are built based on rigid assumptions, which may not faithfully reveal the dynamic characteristics of bearing in the presence of fault. Moreover, previous similar works mainly focus on the fault with a specified size without considering the varying contact characteristics as the fault evolves. This paper developed an explicit dynamics finite element model for the bearing with three types of raceway faults considering the flexibility of each bearing component in order to accurately study the contact characteristic and vibration mechanism of defective bearings in the process of fault evolution. The developed model is validated by comparing its simulation results with both analytical and experimental results. The dynamic contact patterns between the rolling elements and the fault, the additional displacement due to the fault and the faulty characteristics within the bearing vibration signal during the fault evolution process are investigated. The analysis results from this work can provide practitioners an in-depth understanding towards the internal contact characteristics with the existence of raceway fault and theoretical basis for rolling bearing fault diagnosis.


2011 ◽  
Vol 291-294 ◽  
pp. 1469-1473
Author(s):  
Wei Ke ◽  
Yong Xiang Zhang ◽  
Lin Li

Vibration signal of rolling-element bearing is random cyclostationarity when a fault develops, the proper analysis of which can be used for condition monitor. Cyclic spectrum is a common cyclostationary analysis method and has a great many algorithms which have distinct efficiency in different application circumstance, two common algorithms (SSCA and FAM) are compared in the paper. The FAM is recommended to be used in diagnosing rolling-element bearing fault via calculation of simulation signal in different signal to noise ratio. The cyclic spectrum of practice signal of rolling-element bearing with inner-race point defect is analyzed and a new characteristic extraction method is put forward. The preferable result is acquired verify the correctness of the analysis and indicate that the cyclic spectrum is a robust method in diagnosing rolling-element bearing fault.


2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (14) ◽  
pp. 4013-4022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keheng Zhu ◽  
Liang Chen ◽  
Xiong Hu

Multi-scale fuzzy entropy (MFE) is a recently developed non-linear dynamic parameter for measuring the complexity of vibration signals of rolling element bearing over different scales. However, the calculation of fuzzy entropy (FuzzyEn) in each scale ignores the sequence’s global characteristics while the bearing vibration signals’ global fluctuation may vary as the bearing runs under different states. Therefore, in this paper, the multi-scale global fuzzy entropy (MGFE) method is put forward for extracting the fault features from the bearing vibration signals. After the feature extraction, multiple class feature selection (MCFS) method is introduced to select the most informative features from the high-dimensional feature vector. Then, a new rolling element bearing fault diagnosis approach is proposed based on MGFE, MCFS and support vector machine (SVM). The experimental results indicate that the proposed approach can effectively fulfill the fault diagnosis of rolling element bearing and has good classification performance.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhipeng Feng ◽  
Fulei Chu

Gearbox and rolling element bearing vibration signals feature modulation, thus being cyclostationary. Therefore, the cyclic correlation and cyclic spectrum are suited to analyze their modulation characteristics and thereby extract gearbox and bearing fault symptoms. In order to thoroughly understand the cyclostationarity of gearbox and bearing vibrations, the explicit expressions of cyclic correlation and cyclic spectrum for amplitude modulation and frequency modulation (AM-FM) signals are derived, and their properties are summarized. The theoretical derivations are illustrated and validated by gearbox and bearing experimental signal analyses. The modulation characteristics caused by gearbox and bearing faults are extracted. In faulty gearbox and bearing cases, more peaks appear in cyclic correlation slice of 0 lag and cyclic spectrum, than in healthy cases. The gear and bearing faults are detected by checking the presence or monitoring the magnitude change of peaks in cyclic correlation and cyclic spectrum and are located according to the peak cyclic frequency locations or sideband frequency spacing.


Rolling element bearing health condition is monitored by analysing its vibration signature. Raw vibration signal picked up through suitably placed accelerometers is difficult to analyse hence many signal processing techniques have been proposed and developed by researchers to process the data for suitably extracting an effective signal feature set. Various machine learning techniques have been used for interpretation and accurate fault diagnosis using this extracted feature set. In this study “Empirical mode decomposition” is used for pre-processing the raw vibration data. Six “Statistical features” are extracted from the best Intrinsic mode function obtained through EMD and “Ensemble machine learning classifiers” are used for bearing fault diagnosis. A stacked ensemble of five classifiers is proposed for accurate fault diagnosis and results are compared with conventional ensemble classifiers to prove its effectiveness


2021 ◽  
pp. 107754632110507
Author(s):  
HongChao Wang ◽  
WenLiao Du ◽  
Haiyi Li ◽  
Zhiwei Li ◽  
Jiale Hu

As the most commonly used support component in engineering, rolling element bearing is also the most prone-to-failure part. The vibration signal of faulty bearing will take on repetitive impact and modulation characteristics, and the two features are often difficult to be extracted by conventional fault feature extraction methods such as envelope spectral. The main reasons are due to the influence of strong background noise, the signal attenuation of the acquisition path, and the early weak failure characteristics. To solve the above problem, a weak fault feature extraction method of rolling element bearing by combing improved minimum entropy de-convolution with enhanced envelope spectral is proposed in the paper. The enhancement effect of improved minimum entropy de-convolution on impact features and the satisfactory extraction effect of EES on repetitive impact and modulation features are utilized comprehensively by the proposed method. Firstly, improved minimum entropy de-convolution is used to filter the vibration signal of faulty bearing to enhance the impact characteristics, and the influence of signal acquisition path on the attenuation of the signal characteristics is also weakened at the same time. Then, enhanced envelope spectral is performed on the filtered signal, and the repetitive impact and modulation characteristics of vibration signal are extracted synchronously. In order to solve the shortcomings of the current commonly used de-convolution methods, an improved minimum entropy de-convolution method based on D-norm is proposed, which can solve the interference caused by random impulsive signals effectively. In addition, compared with the conventional method such as envelope spectral, the enhanced envelope spectral method could extract the repetitive impact and modulation characteristics of the faulty signal simultaneously much more effectively. Effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method are verified through simulation, experiment, and engineering application.


Author(s):  
S. Chatterton ◽  
P. Borghesani ◽  
P. Pennacchi ◽  
A. Vania

Diagnostics of rolling element bearings is usually performed by the analysis of vibration signal using suitable signal analysis tools, such as the most used and simplest method, Envelope Analysis. This method is based on the identification of bearing damage frequency components in the so-called Square Envelope Spectrum. If the assessment of the bearing health is quite a simple task, the on-line monitoring and the real-time evaluation of the trend of a suitable damage index is a complex task to be performed in an automatic way. The damage index must be robust against variations of system operating conditions and external vibration sources to avoid misleading results. The damage index should be also simple to be evaluated in the case of real-time applications. In the paper, the case of a rolling element bearing in which the defect develops until a permanent failure is described as well as the algorithm implemented for alarm signaling.


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