This paper deals with the finite element analysis of a specific fault of the squirrel cage induction motors consisting in rotor bars breaking. Several variants of rotor bar faults are studied, using both quasi-static and transient magnetic field analyses. The numerical results in the reference case of healthy motor are experimentally validated by laboratory measurements.

The fault current development in a circuit breaker during a pole-to-ground fault is analyzed for a generic multiterminal HVDC system based on Voltage Source Converters. The paper aims to contribute to the current discussion of which requirements on breaking time and peak current HVDC circuit breakers need to fulfill in such networks either based on OHLs or cables. Therefore, the fault current i...

Received Oct 30, 2014 Revised Dec 29, 2014 Accepted Jan 15, 2015 A reliable monitoring of industrial drives plays a vital role to prevent from the performance degradation of machinery. Today’s fault detection system mechanism uses wavelet transform for proper detection of faults, however it required more attention on detecting higher fault rates with lower execution time. Existence of faults on...

In this paper, the noise of electric motors is analyzed in order to obtain information for the detection of faults. Significant noise spectrum differences between healthy motor and motors with different faults are observed. The faults analyzed are bad bearing in the three phase induction motor and broken bars in single phase induction motor. The high-frequency spectral analysis of noise provide...

The accuracy of teleseismic estimates of moment, fault area, dislocation and stress drop was tested for the case of a thrust fault: the San Fernando, California, earthquake of Feburary 9, 1971. On the basis of P-wave spectra of 25 stations and S-wave spectra of 9 stations, the respective values were found to be 0.7.1026 dyne-cm, 570 km 2, 45 cm, and 14 bars. They agree well with the same parame...