Journal
JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION
Volume 420, Issue -, Pages 174-184Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2018.01.001
Keywords
Rolling element bearing; Fault diagnosis; Stochastic resonance; Time-frequency distribution; Spectrogram
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [5147544]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-13-0539]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS [2016396]
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It is not easy to identify incipient defect of a rolling element bearing by analyzing the vibration data because of the disturbance of background noise. The weak and unrecognizable transient fault signal of a mechanical system can be enhanced by the stochastic resonance (SR) technique that utilizes the noise in the system. However, it is challenging for the SR technique to identify sensitive fault information in non-stationary signals. This paper proposes a new method called multi-scale SR spectrogram (MSSRS) for bearing defect diagnosis. The new method considers the non-stationary property of the defective bearing vibration signals, and treats every scale of the time-frequency distribution (TFD) as a modulation system. Then the SR technique is utilized on each modulation system according to each frequencies in the TFD. The SR results are sensitive to the defect information because the energy of transient vibration is distributed in a limited frequency band in the TFD. Collecting the spectra of the SR outputs at all frequency scales then generates the MSSRS. The proposed MSSRS is able to well deal with the non-stationary transient signal, and can highlight the defect-induced frequency component corresponding to the impulse information. Experimental results with practical defective bearing vibration data have shown that the proposed method outperforms the former SR methods and exhibits a good application prospect in rolling element bearing fault diagnosis. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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