Abstract
A novel diagnosis technology combining the benefits of spectral kurtosis and wavelet transform is proposed and validated for early defect diagnosis of rolling element bearings. A systematic procedure for feature calculation is proposed and rules for selection of technology parameters are explained. Experimental validation of the proposed method carried out for early detection of the inner race defect. A comparison between frequency band selection through wavelets and spectral kurtosis is also presented. It has been observed that the frequency band selected using spectral kurtosis provide better separation between healthy and defective bearings compared to the frequency band selection using wavelet. In terms of Fisher criterion the use of spectral kurtosis has a gain of 2.75 times compared to the wavelet.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 024 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |