Periodic transient shocks of vibration signals often reflect the failure of mechanical components. With the time-frequency (TF) distribution (TFD), Transient-extracting transform (TET) can descript and extract the fault-related transient component effectively. Nevertheless, vibrations collected from practical sources are always contaminated by strong background noise, thus the transient shocks are often submerged by noise components. Therefore, how to effectively extract the weak transient component from noise is an important task to achieve the bearing fault diagnosis. Considering the above issue, this paper developed a generalized mini-max concave (GMC) penalty based TET (GMCTET) for bearing fault feature enhancement. Specifically, the GMC penalty based-sparse regularization is firstly applied to the raw signal. Benefiting from the good ability of GMC penalty-based sparse regularization in both sparsity and signal fidelity. The transient shocks are initially presented, and the loss of energy amplitude of the raw signal during the processing is reduced simultaneously. Next, TET can well characterize these transient shocks via a highly readable TFD, and the transient component is extracted based on the TF coefficients. The shock structures in transient component are further highlighted after TET treatment. Finally, the bearing fault frequencies are identified through the spectrum of the extracted transient component. The effectiveness of GMCTET is verified from the comparative analysis results of the simulation and experimental studies.
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