Fault detection in a multistage gearbox by demodulation of motor current waveform

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1285-1297

  Mohanty, A R ^a   Kar, Chinmaya ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b General Electric Company India   (India)

Author keywords

Current; Demodulation; Fault diagnosis; Gears; Wavelet transforms

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; GEARS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM; FAULT DIAGNOSIS; MOTOR CURRENT WAVEFORM; MULTISTAGE GEARBOX;

INDUCTION MOTORS;

EID: 33747612207     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2006.878303     Document Type: Article

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