A general and efficient method is presented in this paper for studying the effects of unbalance on the breathing mechanism of crack.Based on 3D finite element models combined with a nonlinear contact approach for crack modeling, the method is free from theassumption of weight-dominance and can be used to gain deep insights into the breathing mechanism of crack. In order to greatlyreduce the computational time, a complex free-interface component mode synthesis (CMS) method is employed to reduce theorder of the model. Based on the proposed method, the effects of unbalance on the breathing mechanism of crack are discussed.Numerical results show that the unbalance can lead to significant changes in the breathing of crack, even when the unbalance force is about an order of magnitude smaller than the self-weight. Moreover, the level and orientation of the unbalance have also remarkable effects on the breathing behaviors of crack. Besides, a new universal non-steady breathing phenomenon of crack is firstly found in this paper, which denotes that the breathing speed of a crack is fluctuated over one revolution when there exists residual unbalance in the cracked rotor.
Wavelet denoising is an effective approach to extract fault features from strong background noise.It has been widely used in mechanical fault detection and shown excellent performance.However,traditional thresholds are not suitable for nonstationary signal denoising because they set universal thresholds for different wavelet coefficients.Therefore,a data-driven threshold strategy is proposed in this paper.First,the signal is decomposed into different subbands by wavelet transformation.Then a data-driven threshold is derived by estimating the noise power spectral density in different subbands.Since the data-driven threshold is dependent on the noise estimation and adapted to data,it is more robust and accurate for denoising than traditional thresholds.Meanwhile,sliding window method is adopted to set a flexible local threshold.When this method was applied to simulation signal and an inner race fault diagnostic case of dedusting fan bearing,the proposed method has good result and provides valuable advantages over traditional methods in the fault detection of rotating machines.
Fault diagnosis of rotating machinery is of great importance to the high quality products and long-term safe operation.However,the useful weak features are usually corrupted by strong background noise,thus increasing the difficulty of the feature extraction.Thereby,a novel denoising method based on the tunable Q-factor wavelet transform(TQWT)using neighboring coefficients is proposed in this article.The emerging TQWT possesses excellent properties compared with the conventional constant-Q wavelet transforms,which can tune Q-factor according to the oscillatory behavior of the signal.Meanwhile,neighboring coefficients denoising is adopted to avoid the overkill of conventional term-by-term thresholding techniques.Because of having the combined advantages of the two methods,the presented denoising method is more practical and effective than other methods.The proposed method is applied to a simulated signal,a rolling element bearing with an outer race defect from antenna transmission chain and a gearbox fault detection case.The processing results demonstrate that the proposed method can successfully identify the fault features,showing that this method is more effective than the conventional wavelet thresholding denoising methods,term-by-term TQWT denoising schemes and spectral kurtosis.
HE WangPengZI YanYangCHEN BinQiangWANG ShuaiHE ZhengJia
Vibration signal is an important prerequisite for mechanical fault detection. However, early stage defect of rotating machiner- ies is difficult to identify because their incipient energy is interfered with background noises. Multiwavelet is a powerful tool used to conduct non-stationary fault feature extraction. However, the existing predetermined multiwavelet bases are independ- ent of the dynamic response signals. In this paper, a constructing technique of vibration data-driven maximal-overlap adaptive multiwavelet （MOAMW） is proposed for enhancing the extracting performance of fault symptom. It is able to derive an opti- mal multiwavelet basis that best matches the critical non-stationary and transient fault signatures via genetic algorithm. In this technique, two-scale similarity transform （TST） and symmetric lifting （SymLift） scheme are combined to gain high designing freedom for matching the critical faulty vibration contents in vibration signals based on the maximal fitness objective. TST and SymLift can add modifications to the initial multiwavelet by changing the approximation order and vanishing moment of mul- tiwavelet, respectively. Moreover, the beneficial feature of the MOAWM lies in that the maximal-overlap filterbank structure can enhance the periodic and transient characteristics of the sensor signals and preserve the time and frequency analyzing res- olution during the decomposition process. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is validated via a numerical simulation as well as a rolling element beating with an outer race scrape and a gearbox with rub fault.
HE ShuiLongZI YanYangZHAO ChenLuCHEN BinQiangWANG XiaoDongHE ZhengJia
