Failure Analysis and Intelligent Identification of Critical Friction Pairs of an Axial Piston Pump

Hydraulic axial piston pumps are the power source of fluid power systems and have important applications in many fields. They have a compact structure, high efficiency, large transmission power, and excellent flow variable performance. However, the crucial components of pumps easily suffer from diff...

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Main Authors: Yong Zhu, Tao Zhou, Shengnan Tang, Shouqi Yuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-03-01
Series:Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/11/3/616
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Summary:Hydraulic axial piston pumps are the power source of fluid power systems and have important applications in many fields. They have a compact structure, high efficiency, large transmission power, and excellent flow variable performance. However, the crucial components of pumps easily suffer from different faults. It is therefore important to investigate a precise fault identification method to maintain reliability of the system. The use of deep models in feature learning, data mining, automatic identification, and classification has led to the development of novel fault diagnosis methods. In this research, typical faults and wears of the important friction pairs of piston pumps were analyzed. Different working conditions were considered by monitoring outlet pressure signals. To overcome the low efficiency and time-consuming nature of traditional manual parameter tuning, the Bayesian algorithm was introduced for adaptive optimization of an established deep learning model. The proposed method can explore potential fault feature information from the signals and adaptively identify the main fault types. The average diagnostic accuracy was found to reach up to 100%, indicating the ability of the method to detect typical faults of axial piston pumps with high precision.
ISSN:2077-1312