Exploring the Use of a Time-Frequency Domain Technique for the Filtering of Acoustic Emission/Microseismic Data

Author(s):  
Charles Mborah ◽  
Maochen Ge ◽  
Zhigang Wang
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 8236
Author(s):  
Le Zhang ◽  
Hongguang Ji ◽  
Liyuan Liu ◽  
Jiwei Zhao

To study the crack evolution law and failure precursory characteristics of deep granite rocks in the process of deformation and failure under high confining pressure, granite samples obtained from a depth of 1150 m are tested using a TAW-2000 triaxial hydraulic servo testing machine and a PCI-II acoustic emission monitoring system. Based on the stress–strain curve and IET function, the loading process of the sample is divided into five stages: crack closure, linear elastic deformation, microcrack generation and development, macroscopic fracture generation and energy surge, and post-peak failure. The evolution trend and fracture evolution law of the acoustic emission signal event interval function in different stages are analyzed. In particular, the signals with an amplitude greater than 85 dB, a peak frequency greater than 350 kHz, and a frequency centroid greater than 275 kHz are defined as the failure precursor signals before the rock reaches the peak stress. The defined precursor signal conditions agree well with the experimental results. The time–frequency analysis and wavelet packet decomposition of the precursor signal are performed on the extracted characteristic signal of the failure precursor. The results show that the time-domain signal is in the form of a continuous waveform, and the frequency-domain waveform has multi-peak coexistence that is mainly concentrated in the high-frequency region. The energy distribution obtained by the wavelet packet decomposition of the characteristic signal is verified with the frequency-domain waveform. The energy distribution of the signal is mainly concentrated in the 343.75–375 kHz frequency band, followed by the 281.25–312.5 kHz frequency band. The energy proportion of the high-frequency signal increases with the confining pressure.


2011 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 574-577
Author(s):  
Lu Zhang ◽  
Guo Feng Wang ◽  
Xu Da Qin ◽  
Xiao Liang Feng

Tool wear monitoring plays an important role in the automatic machining processes. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a reliable method to predict tool wear status. In this paper, features of acoustic emission (AE) extracted from time-frequency domain are integrated with force features to indicate the status of tool wear. Meanwhile, a support vector machine (SVM) model is employed to distinguish the tool wear status. The result of the classification of different tool wear status proved that features extracted from time-frequency domain can be the recognize-features of high recognition precision.


2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henryk Majchrzak ◽  
Andrzej Cichoń ◽  
Sebastian Borucki

Abstract This paper provides an example of the application of the acoustic emission (AE) method for the diagnosis of technical conditions of a three-phase on-load tap-changer (OLTC) GIII type. The measurements were performed for an amount of 10 items of OLTCs, installed in power transformers with a capacity of 250 MVA. The study was conducted in two different OLTC operating conditions during the tapping process: under load and free running conditions. The analysis of the measurement results was made in both time domain and time-frequency domain. The description of the AE signals generated by the OLTC in the time domain was performed using the analysis of waveforms and determined characteristic times. Within the time-frequency domain the measured signals were described by short-time Fourier transform spectrograms.


Geophysics ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 928-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobukazu Soma ◽  
Hiroaki Niitsuma ◽  
Roy Baria

We have developed a reflection technique for estimating deep geothermal reservoir structures using acoustic emission signals as a source, which is useful when there is no proper estimating technique because of high temperature, high pressure, and great depth. Because its resolution is not high enough for comparison with methods such as well logging, we have enhanced the technique by developing a time–frequency‐domain analysis of multicomponent acoustic emission signals using a wavelet transform. The reflected wave is separated from an incoherent coda by analyzing the shape of a 3‐D hodogram: a linear shape indicates the arrival of a coherent signal such as a reflected wave, and an incoherent signal such as a coda makes a spherical shape. We construct a spectral matrix of 3‐D particle motion using a wavelet transform, as is done in a time–frequency domain. We evaluate the linearity of the 3‐D hodogram for each time and frequency by using the eigenvalues of the spectral matrix. Three‐dimensional inversion of the distribution of hodogram linearity in the time–frequency domain lets us image the deep subsurface structure. The inversion is based on the diffraction stack. We reduce the uncertainties by investigating S‐wave polarization direction, and we compensate for inhomogeneous source distribution to get reliable estimates with high resolution. We then evaluate our methods with synthetic signals. We discriminate a coherent wave from incoherent random noise in the presence of an S/N ratio of −3.7 dB and detect reflectors at correct depths with a small number of detectors. We apply the method to data from the European hot, dry rock site in Soultz‐sous‐Forêts, France, and compare our estimates with those from a number of borehole observations. The detected reflectors agree with the location of fracture zones. We demonstrate the feasibility of the method for detecting reflectors at great depths.


Author(s):  
Wentao Xie ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Jin Zhang

Smart eyewear (e.g., AR glasses) is considered to be the next big breakthrough for wearable devices. The interaction of state-of-the-art smart eyewear mostly relies on the touchpad which is obtrusive and not user-friendly. In this work, we propose a novel acoustic-based upper facial action (UFA) recognition system that serves as a hands-free interaction mechanism for smart eyewear. The proposed system is a glass-mounted acoustic sensing system with several pairs of commercial speakers and microphones to sense UFAs. There are two main challenges in designing the system. The first challenge is that the system is in a severe multipath environment and the received signal could have large attenuation due to the frequency-selective fading which will degrade the system's performance. To overcome this challenge, we design an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)-based channel state information (CSI) estimation scheme that is able to measure the phase changes caused by a facial action while mitigating the frequency-selective fading. The second challenge is that because the skin deformation caused by a facial action is tiny, the received signal has very small variations. Thus, it is hard to derive useful information directly from the received signal. To resolve this challenge, we apply a time-frequency analysis to derive the time-frequency domain signal from the CSI. We show that the derived time-frequency domain signal contains distinct patterns for different UFAs. Furthermore, we design a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to extract high-level features from the time-frequency patterns and classify the features into six UFAs, namely, cheek-raiser, brow-raiser, brow-lower, wink, blink and neutral. We evaluate the performance of our system through experiments on data collected from 26 subjects. The experimental result shows that our system can recognize the six UFAs with an average F1-score of 0.92.


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