The traditional bearing fault diagnosis method is achieved often by sampling the bearing vibration data under the Shannon sampling theorem. Then, the information of the bearing state can be extracted from the vibration data, which will be used in fault diagnosis. A long-term and continuous monitoring needs to sample and store large amounts of raw vibration signals, which will burden the data storage and transmission greatly. For this problem, a new bearing fault diagnosis method based on compressed sensing is presented, which just needs to sample and store a small amount of compressed observation data and uses these data directly to achieve the fault diagnosis. First, several over-complete dictionaries are trained by dictionary learning method using the historical operating data of the bearings. Each of these dictionaries can be effective in signal sparse decomposition for a particular state, while the signals corresponding to other states cannot be decomposed sparsely. According to this difference, the bearing states can be identified finally. The fault diagnosis results of the proposed method with different parameters are analyzed. The effectiveness of the method is validated by experimental tests.
This paper presents a method based on the extraction of the largest amplitude impact transients (ELAIT) for diagnosing the rolling element defect in bearings. As a defected rolling element causes two largest amplitude impact transients (LAITs) during a spin period when the element passes the load zone centre, LAITs are separated for each rolling element according to the kinematics of the bearing operation. By applying band-pass filtering, demodulation, low-pass filtering, and ensemble averaging to these LAITs, an enhanced signature named envelope ensemble average (EEA) is obtained for each rolling element, which allows a reliable indication of the defected elements. The robustness of the method is evaluated by investigating the localised fault model of rolling bearings with the inclusion of phase errors caused by rotational speed oscillation and rolling element slippage along with additive white noises. Evaluation results show that EEA signatures are very sensitive to element defects and give an accurate indication of the most probably defected element, and the ELAIT method is robust to rotational speed oscillation and slippage. The same performance is also achieved when the method was validated with experimental signals from a test rig of machinery fault simulation, showing effectiveness and robustness in detecting rolling element defects in an operated bearing. Besides, the proposed method can be easily implemented online as it does not need a tachometer and is implemented at low computation cost.
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