Information fusion is becoming state-of-the-art methodology for performance assessment of engineering assets. Efficiently and smartly combining multi-source information and relevant models from the interested object, more accurate and reliable diagnostic and prognostic results regarding the object can be achieved, which are especially significant for the condition-based maintenance and prognost...

A brief status report on bearing technology and present and near-term future problems that warrant research support is presented. For rolling element bearings a material with improved fracture toughness, life data in the low A region, a comprehensive failure theory verified by life data and incorporated into dynamic analyses, and an improved corrosion resistant alloy are perceived as important ...

In this paper an issue of local damage detection in a rolling element bearing is discussed. The bearing operates in a hummer crusher, thus the vibration signal acquired on the housing contains a lot of impacts that originate in various sources. In the case of local damage detection it is crucial to find a set of cyclic impulses in the signal. These impulses are informative, in spite of impulses...

Induction motors plays the most important role in any industry. Induction motor faults results in motor failure causing breakdown and great loss of production due to shutdown of industry and also increases the running cost of machine with reduction in efficiency. This needs for early detection of fault with diagnosis of its root cause. In this research paper a wavelet based fault classification...

The rolling element bearing is a key part of machines. The accurate and timely diagnosis of its faults is critical for predictive maintenance. Most researches have focused on the fault location identification. To estimate the fault severity accurately, this paper focuses on the study of roller bearing vibration amplitude under increasing radial clearances due to inevitable wear using the modula...

Rolling element bearing faults in rotating systems are observed as impulses in the vibration signals, which are usually buried in noise. In order to effectively detect faults in bearings, a novel spectrum searching method is proposed in this paper. The structural information of the spectrum (SIOS) on a predefined frequency grid is constructed through a searching algorithm, such that the harmoni...

Rolling-element bearing failures are the most frequent problems in rotating machinery, which can be catastrophic and cause major downtime. Hence, providing advance failure warning and precise fault detection in such components are pivotal and cost-effective. The vast majority of past research has focused on signal processing and spectral analysis for fault diagnostics in rotating components. In...

Bearing failure is one of the foremost causes of breakdowns in rotating machinery and such failure can be catastrophic, resulting in costly downtime. One of the key issues in bearing prognostics is to detect the defect at its incipient stage and alert the operator before it develops into a catastrophic failure. Signal de-noising and extraction of the weak signature are crucial to bearing progno...

De-noising and extraction of the weak signature are crucial to fault prognostics in which case features are often very weak and masked by noise. The wavelet transform has been widely used in signal de-noising due to its extraordinary time-frequency representation capability. In this paper, the performance of wavelet decomposition-based de-noising and wavelet filter-based de-noising methods are ...

This paper presents a methodology for an automation of fault diagnosis of ball bearings having localized defects (spalls) on the various bearing components. The system uses the wavelet packet decomposition using ‘rbio5.5’ real mother wavelet function for feature extraction from the vibration signal, recorded for various bearing fault conditions. The decomposition level is determined by the samp...