The application of higher order spectra to machinery faults diagnosis is studied in this paper.A brief review of bispectra is presented,and more emphasis is placed on the ability of higher order spectra to extract diagnostic information from fault signals.Furthermore,by use of the algorithm of higher order spectra,two kinds of typical mechanical faults are analyzed.Results show that the high order spectra analysis is a more efficient method in machinery diagnosis compared with the FFT based spectral analysis.
