The application of the conditional moments analysis to gearbox fault detection - A comparative study using the spectrogram and scalogram

NDT and E International

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 309-320

  Yesilyurt, Isa ^a  

^a AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Gear fault; Instantaneous energy; Mean frequency; Median frequency; Scalogram; Spectrogram; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DEFECTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

GEAR FAULTS; INSTANTANEOUS ENERGY; MEAN FREQUENCY; MEDIAN FREQUENCY; SCALOGRAM; SPECTROGRAM; TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

GEAR TEETH;

EID: 2442490212     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2003.10.005     Document Type: Article

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