Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery Based on Stochastic Resonance with a Bistable Confining Potential

Since the weak fault characteristics of mechanical equipment are often difficult to extract in strong background noise, stochastic resonance (SR) is widely used to extract the weak fault characteristics, which is able to utilize the noise to amplify weak fault characteristics. Although classical bis...

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Main Authors: Zhixing Li, Boqiang Shi
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-01-01
Series:Shock and Vibration
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/8452509
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description Since the weak fault characteristics of mechanical equipment are often difficult to extract in strong background noise, stochastic resonance (SR) is widely used to extract the weak fault characteristics, which is able to utilize the noise to amplify weak fault characteristics. Although classical bistable stochastic resonance (CBSR) can enhance the weak characteristics by adjusting the parameters of potential model, when potential barrier height is adjusted potential well width is also changed and vice versa. The simultaneous change of both potential well width and barrier height is difficult to obtain a suitable potential model for better weak fault characteristic extraction and further fault diagnosis of machinery. For this reason, the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of CBSR is greatly reduced, and the corresponding enhancement ability of weak fault characteristics is limited. In order to avoid the shortcomings, a new SR method is proposed to extract weak fault characteristics and further diagnose the faults of rotating machinery, where the classical bistable potential is replaced with a bistable confining potential to get the optimal SR. The bistable confining potential model not only has the characteristics of the classical bistable potential model but also has the ability to adjust the potential width, barrier height, and wall steepness independently. Simulated data are used to demonstrate the proposed new SR method. The results indicate that the weak fault characteristics can be effectively extracted from simulated signals with heavy noise. Experiments on the bearings and planetary gearboxes demonstrate that the proposed SR method can correctly diagnose the faults of rotating machinery and moreover has higher spectrum peak and better recognition degree compared with the CBSR method.
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spelling doaj-art-0d7dbd0faab34b6ab7791f3c6cc5dca42025-08-20T03:54:24ZengWileyShock and Vibration1070-96221875-92032018-01-01201810.1155/2018/84525098452509Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery Based on Stochastic Resonance with a Bistable Confining PotentialZhixing Li0Boqiang Shi1School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science & Technology Beijing, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science & Technology Beijing, Beijing, ChinaSince the weak fault characteristics of mechanical equipment are often difficult to extract in strong background noise, stochastic resonance (SR) is widely used to extract the weak fault characteristics, which is able to utilize the noise to amplify weak fault characteristics. Although classical bistable stochastic resonance (CBSR) can enhance the weak characteristics by adjusting the parameters of potential model, when potential barrier height is adjusted potential well width is also changed and vice versa. The simultaneous change of both potential well width and barrier height is difficult to obtain a suitable potential model for better weak fault characteristic extraction and further fault diagnosis of machinery. For this reason, the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of CBSR is greatly reduced, and the corresponding enhancement ability of weak fault characteristics is limited. In order to avoid the shortcomings, a new SR method is proposed to extract weak fault characteristics and further diagnose the faults of rotating machinery, where the classical bistable potential is replaced with a bistable confining potential to get the optimal SR. The bistable confining potential model not only has the characteristics of the classical bistable potential model but also has the ability to adjust the potential width, barrier height, and wall steepness independently. Simulated data are used to demonstrate the proposed new SR method. The results indicate that the weak fault characteristics can be effectively extracted from simulated signals with heavy noise. Experiments on the bearings and planetary gearboxes demonstrate that the proposed SR method can correctly diagnose the faults of rotating machinery and moreover has higher spectrum peak and better recognition degree compared with the CBSR method.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/8452509
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title Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery Based on Stochastic Resonance with a Bistable Confining Potential
title_full Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery Based on Stochastic Resonance with a Bistable Confining Potential
title_fullStr Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery Based on Stochastic Resonance with a Bistable Confining Potential
title_full_unstemmed Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery Based on Stochastic Resonance with a Bistable Confining Potential
title_short Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery Based on Stochastic Resonance with a Bistable Confining Potential
title_sort fault diagnosis of rotating machinery based on stochastic resonance with a bistable confining potential
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/8452509
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