Advance Fault Identification of Rolling Element Bearing
Advance Fault Identification of Rolling Element Bearing
Abstract — Health monitoring and fault identification of Vibration signals are usually analyzed in time domain [8],
unhealthy bearing have been of great significance in industries. and frequency domain [9]. Time domain analysis fails identify
Various techniques to identify faults have been developed, but the frequency feature of faulty data hence this technique is not
techniques to filter the vibrations generated due to synchronous preferred. Frequency-domain analyses are able to identify
noise and random noise precisely are still scarce. This work frequency component but due to nonstationary and non-linear
proposes development of a more precise technique where Morlet features of signals generated by bearing, this technique is also
Wavelet (MW) is used as a filter for pre-processing of data. Then not suitable. To obtain frequency components and due to non-
fast Kurtogram and Hilbert Transform are applied to identify stationary nature of vibration signals, the most applicable
faults on rolling elements. The proposed signal processing
technique would be a combined time-frequency domain
algorithm is then implemented using National Instruments
LabVIEW for real-time automatic bearing fault detection. The
analysis [10].
result shows that the fault diagnostics of the proposed technique Vibration signals generated due to early bearing failure are
is more precise. usually weak hence they ae easily submerged in the
environmental noise, which prevents from early detection of
Keywords — Morlet Wavelet, Rolling element bearings, the failure [11]. In this paper, a real-time advance fault
Kurtogram, Hilbert Transform, detection technique is developed where preprocessing of non-
stationary noisy signal is performed by using Morlet Wavelet,
then those signals are analyzed using Kurtogram, a time-
I. INTRODUCTION frequency domain analysis. Furthermore, by calculating the
Rolling bearing elements are key components in health signal power spectral density (PSD), the time domain
management of engineering machinery, as it withstands all vibrational data is converted to frequency domain to detect the
radial and axial loads and reduces continuous rotational type of fault. National Instrument (NI) LabVIEW is used to
friction. Mostly due to excessive load and insufficient implement the detection algorithm.
lubrication, bearing may get damaged, thus they are The remaining paper is distributed as follows. Section II
considered as the most vulnerable part in electrical machine. explains the proposed technique for fault detection in bearing.
According to a survey, bearing faults are noticed in 40 to 90% In Section III, experimental setup was laid for two bearing
of machines, based on the type and size of the machine[1]. fault data sets. In Section IV the faulty data were implemented
Due to its vast applications in motors, engines and turbines, with and without filter and a comparative analysis is
there is a crucial need to develop detection and identification presented. Conclusion and future works are provided in
techniques for bearing faults. Section V.
There are various kind of rolling bearing faults, such as
surface rub damage, wear and tear. Amongst them, the most II. VIBRATIONAL ANALYSIS
common one is the damage caused due to surface friction; The raw vibrational signal generated by an accelerometer
These faults can be distributed from surface cracks to surface gives only minimal and vague information regarding the
spalling which can lead to abnormal conditions [2]. To bearing fault. The existence of high noise in the signal also
identify the faults in a motor bearing, most commonly used often causes misleading interpretation of these data. In this
techniques are based on vibration analysis [3], [4], using section a step by step advance fault detection method is
motor current signature analysis [5] or by the detection of presented.
acoustic emission [6]. All these techniques are used to detect
As in gearbox the vibration signals produced by bearing
bearing roughness or crack formation. Acoustic emission
are very weak even if the bearing has faults hence these
sensors detect the crack extremely early even when the
vibrations are suppressed by high vibration of gear and noise
remaining useful life of the bearing is long whereas using
signal. To make data valuable certain pre-processing
vibration monitoring device, cracks are detected when the
techniques are implemented.
remaining useful life is minimal [7]. Hence the technique of
vibration analysis is preferred.
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𝑥𝐻 (𝑡) Start
𝜃 = tan−1
𝑥(𝑡)
Vibration Signal to be analyzed
D. Bearing Fault Frequency
When the rolling element passes any part that has defect
an impact shock is produced which excites high-frequency Perform Morlet Wavelet
resonances of the whole structure. The value of the faulty (MW) on the signal
frequencies depends on the rotational speed of the shaft and Pre-processing
on the geometrical parameters of the bearing. The geometric
parameters of the bearing are ball diameter, the pitch diameter,
the contact angle of the balls on the race and the number of -
balls Fig 2 shows the geometric parameters of the ball bearing
that are involved to generate the fault frequencies.
Compute Fast Kurtogram
using 1/3-binary tree
structure
where 𝐵𝑑 is the ball diameter, 𝑃𝑑 the pitch diameter, 𝛽 the The dataset was collected from a test rig which was
contact angle of the balls on the race, 𝑁𝑏 the number of balls equipped with NTN UCP 202 bearing with the value of the
and 𝑆𝐹 the shaft frequency. parameters listed in Table 1. The shaft rotation frequency used
for experiments was 1500 RPM.
The step by step procedure to detect faults in a noisy Table 1: Geometric Parameter for bearing
environment is summarized in the flowchart shown in Fig 3. Geometric Parameter
Ball diameter 𝐵𝑑 0.3125
Pitch diameter 𝑃𝑑 1.319
Number of balls 𝑁𝑏 8
Contact angle 𝛽 0
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Two different bearings were used each with fault only on IV. ANALYSIS AND RESULTS
one side of race either inner race or outer race. To validate our Once the faulty vibration signals are generated, the
experiment a healthy bearing was also used. Fig 5 show the procedure, described on flowchart would be followed but
faults on bearings. A low-level fault was visible at inner race prior to that faulty frequencies known as Bearing
which was generated as the surface on inner race was worn Characteristic Frequencies (BCF) should be calculated. These
out where as faults on outer race were clearly visible due to frequencies are calculated by using the parameters defined in
crack. Table 1 and placing them in Equations (9) to (12). These
defective frequencies of the bearing are as shown in Table 2.
(a) (b)
1500𝑅𝑃𝑀⁄ = 25𝐻𝑧
60
Table 2: Bearing Characteristic Frequencies
Outer race Types of defects Frequency
(c) fault Shaft frequency SF 25 Hz
Ball Pass Frequency on the 81.12 Hz
outer race 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑡
Ball Pass Frequency on the 118.81 Hz
inner race 𝑓𝑖𝑛
Cage pass frequency 𝑓𝐹𝑇𝐹 10.14 Hz
Ball Spin rotation frequency 𝑓𝑏 127.73 Hz
4
Kurtogram. The Kurtogram is represented using grey scale
2 hence the highest value for Kurtosis is represented using black
0
colour.
-2
(a)
-4
-6
-8
0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1 1.25 1.5 1.75 2 2.25 2.5 2.75 3
Time (s)
(a) 40
30
(b) 20
10
-10 (b)
-20
-30
-40
-50
0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1 1.25 1.5 1.75 2 2.25 2.5 2.75 3
Time (s)
Fig 6: Vibration data for bearing when the defect was generated due to
contact of ball with (a)damaged outer race (b)damaged inner race
Usually, noise in the data represents imbalance and Fig 8: Kurtogram representation for bearing with a defect located on (a)
mechanical looseness in bearing or improper installation of outer race (b) inner race
accelerometer. To test the Advance fault detection system a From the Kurtogram we can notice that maximum value
medium noise is generated and added to the vibration signal. of Kurtosis for the outer race fault is at 4th level node 12 and
The noise signal generated is a white Gaussian noise with inner race fault is at level 1 node 2. The faulty frequency
mean 0 and standard deviation of 0.8 as shown in fig 7. ranges for each type of bearing fault was calculated as shown
in Table 3
Waveform Graph
4
1
Table 3: Cut-off frequencies for bandpass filter.
0
-1
-2
Lower Upper
-3
-4
frequency (Hz) frequency (Hz)
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3
Time (s)
Outer race fault 13375 14500
Fig 7: Noise signal
Inner race fault 10000 19000
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Waveform Graph 2
Once the faulty frequency range was detected then the 0.09
0.08
filtered signal was demodulated using envelope detection.
0.06
Hilbert transform was used to demodulate the signal. After the
transformation, the Power Spectral Density (PSD) of the data 0.04
bearings are shown in fig 9 The point where the main peak is Fig 10: Power Spectral density without filtering noisy data (a) Outer
race fault (b) Inner race fault
achieved represents the frequency where maximum power is
dissipated. As the proposed technique can easily identify the types of
From fig 9(a), it is visible that for health bearing the fault for both inner and outer race with noisy vibrations hence
maximum value of power dissipated is extremely small which the proposed technique is better.
proves the system as healthy. Whereas for figure 9(b) the V. CONCLUSION
highest peak marked as fout is at 81Hz which represent as outer
race faulty bearing. The multiples of fout represent higher This paper presents an improved fault detection technique
harmonics. Similarly, for fig 9(c) the highest peak marked as where bearing faults for noisy vibration signal were detected.
fin is at 118Hz which represents inner race faulty bearing. The In the proposed technique a new step was added where an
multiples of f𝑖𝑛 represent higher harmonics and the SB additional filter Morlet wavelet was used to filter
represents side bands which are visible due to amplitude synchronous noise. The vibration signals collected from two
modulating effect kinds of rolling element bearings are used with additional
added noise to test the improved performance of the proposed
(a) (a)
0.0004
0.00035
0.0003
method. The results obtained validate the effectiveness and
0.00025 preciseness of the proposed method.
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