Abstract
Envelope analysis has been widely used to detect early stage faults of rolling element bearings. The primary initial step of envelope analysis is the proper selection of the resonance band for demodulation. Current band selection methods, such as wide band selection, “power spectral density” comparison, and selecting the accelerometer resonance band have limitations such as disturbance of the wide band, the need for a healthy signal for comparison, and the implementation of specialized sensors. In this study, an enhanced method of resonance band selection for envelope analysis was developed. The developed method implements high-pass filtering and “time synchronous averaging” to remove dominant speed-dependent (nonsynchronous and synchronous) spectral contents of a vibration signal. Wavelet packet transform and “root mean square” were then applied to determine the energy distribution of the residual signal. The band with the highest energy (resonance band) was selected for envelope analysis. An experimental study was designed for cross-validation of the developed method. The developed method in this study is more practical than current band selection methods and has no special requirement for sensors. The developed algorithm can be implemented as a processing algorithm in a commercial vibration analyzer, which enhances its ability in early-stage bearing fault detection.
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