Performance of Envelope Demodulation for Bearing Damage Detection on CWRU Accelerometric Data: Kurtogram and Traditional Indicators vs. Targeted a Posteriori Band Indicators

Envelope demodulation of vibration signals is surely one of the most successful methods of analysis for highlighting diagnostic information of rolling element bearings incipient faults. From a mathematical perspective, the selection of a proper demodulation band can be regarded as an optimization pr...

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Main Authors: Daga Alessandro Paolo, Garibaldi Luigi, Fasana Alessandro, Marchesiello Stefano
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Garibaldi Luigi
Fasana Alessandro
Marchesiello Stefano
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description Envelope demodulation of vibration signals is surely one of the most successful methods of analysis for highlighting diagnostic information of rolling element bearings incipient faults. From a mathematical perspective, the selection of a proper demodulation band can be regarded as an optimization problem involving a utility function to assess the demodulation performance in a particular band and a scheme to move within the search space of all the possible frequency bands {f, Δf} (center frequency and band size) towards the optimal one. In most of cases, kurtosis-based indices are used to select the proper demodulation band. Nevertheless, to overcome the lack of robustness to non-Gaussian noise, different utility functions can be found in the literature. One of these is the kurtosis of the unbiased autocorrelation of the squared envelope of the filtered signal found in the autogram. These heuristics are usually sufficient to highlight the defect spectral lines in the demodulated signal spectrum (i.e., usually the squared envelope spectrum (SES)), enabling bearings diagnostics. Nevertheless, it is not always the case. In this work, then, posteriori band indicators based on SES defect spectral lines are proposed to assess the general envelope demodulation performance and the goodness of traditional indicators. The Case Western Reserve University bearing dataset is used as a test case.
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spelling doaj.art-31eabf8cc6cc45d9b73a9eca6ee0a6fa2023-11-22T03:06:43ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172021-07-011114626210.3390/app11146262Performance of Envelope Demodulation for Bearing Damage Detection on CWRU Accelerometric Data: Kurtogram and Traditional Indicators vs. Targeted a Posteriori Band IndicatorsDaga Alessandro Paolo0Garibaldi Luigi1Fasana Alessandro2Marchesiello Stefano3Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, ItalyEnvelope demodulation of vibration signals is surely one of the most successful methods of analysis for highlighting diagnostic information of rolling element bearings incipient faults. From a mathematical perspective, the selection of a proper demodulation band can be regarded as an optimization problem involving a utility function to assess the demodulation performance in a particular band and a scheme to move within the search space of all the possible frequency bands {f, Δf} (center frequency and band size) towards the optimal one. In most of cases, kurtosis-based indices are used to select the proper demodulation band. Nevertheless, to overcome the lack of robustness to non-Gaussian noise, different utility functions can be found in the literature. One of these is the kurtosis of the unbiased autocorrelation of the squared envelope of the filtered signal found in the autogram. These heuristics are usually sufficient to highlight the defect spectral lines in the demodulated signal spectrum (i.e., usually the squared envelope spectrum (SES)), enabling bearings diagnostics. Nevertheless, it is not always the case. In this work, then, posteriori band indicators based on SES defect spectral lines are proposed to assess the general envelope demodulation performance and the goodness of traditional indicators. The Case Western Reserve University bearing dataset is used as a test case.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/14/6262bearings diagnosticsenvelope demodulationkurtogramautogramprotrugramsparsogram
spellingShingle Daga Alessandro Paolo
Garibaldi Luigi
Fasana Alessandro
Marchesiello Stefano
Performance of Envelope Demodulation for Bearing Damage Detection on CWRU Accelerometric Data: Kurtogram and Traditional Indicators vs. Targeted a Posteriori Band Indicators
Applied Sciences
bearings diagnostics
envelope demodulation
kurtogram
autogram
protrugram
sparsogram
title Performance of Envelope Demodulation for Bearing Damage Detection on CWRU Accelerometric Data: Kurtogram and Traditional Indicators vs. Targeted a Posteriori Band Indicators
title_full Performance of Envelope Demodulation for Bearing Damage Detection on CWRU Accelerometric Data: Kurtogram and Traditional Indicators vs. Targeted a Posteriori Band Indicators
title_fullStr Performance of Envelope Demodulation for Bearing Damage Detection on CWRU Accelerometric Data: Kurtogram and Traditional Indicators vs. Targeted a Posteriori Band Indicators
title_full_unstemmed Performance of Envelope Demodulation for Bearing Damage Detection on CWRU Accelerometric Data: Kurtogram and Traditional Indicators vs. Targeted a Posteriori Band Indicators
title_short Performance of Envelope Demodulation for Bearing Damage Detection on CWRU Accelerometric Data: Kurtogram and Traditional Indicators vs. Targeted a Posteriori Band Indicators
title_sort performance of envelope demodulation for bearing damage detection on cwru accelerometric data kurtogram and traditional indicators vs targeted a posteriori band indicators
topic bearings diagnostics
envelope demodulation
kurtogram
autogram
protrugram
sparsogram
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/14/6262
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