Stationarity test of vibration signals with surrogate data and time

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The stationarity test of vibration signals is critical for the extraction of the signal features. In this article, the surrogate data with various time–frequency analysis methods are proposed for stationary test of vibration signals. The surrogate data are first generated from the Fourier spectrum of the original signal with keeping the magnitude of the spectrum unchanged and replacing its phase by a random sequence. The local and global spectra of the original signal and the surrogate data are then estimated by four time–frequency analysis methods, which are short-time Fourier transform, multitaper spectrograms, wavelet transform, and S-transform methods. The index of nonstationarity is then defined based on the distances between the local and global spectra. Three kinds of synthetic signals, which are stationary signals, frequency-modulated signals, and amplitude-modulated signals, are tested to compare the efficiency of the four time–frequency analysis methods as mentioned. The results show that with a certain observation scale value, the index of nonstationarity based on the short-time Fourier transform or wavelet transform method may fail to test the stationarity of the signal. The parametric studies and sensitivity analysis of the observation scale and noise-level effect are also extensively conducted. The results show that the index of nonstationarity calculated using the multitaper spectrograms’ method is more suitable for stationarity test of frequency-modulated signals, while the index of nonstationarity calculated using the S-transform method is more suitable for stationarity test of amplitude-modulated signals. The results also show that the noise has a significant effect on the stationarity test results. Finally, the stationarity of a real vibration signal measured from a cable is tested, and the results show that the proposed index of nonstationarity can effectively test the stationarity of real vibration signals.

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multitaper spectrograms short-time Fourier transform stationarity test S-transform surrogate data

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Stationarity test of vibration signals with surrogate data and time–frequency analysis

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