Observations of changes in acoustic emission waveform for varying seeded defect sizes in a rolling element bearing

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-81

  Al Dossary, Saad ^a   Hamzah, R I Raja ^b   Mba, D ^b  

^a SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic emissions; Bearing defect size; Bearing fault diagnosis; Condition monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTICS; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CONDITION MONITORING; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ROLLING; SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE;

BEARING DEFECT SIZE; BEARING FAULT DIAGNOSIS; DEFECT SIZES; EXPERIMENTAL TESTS; GEOMETRIC DEFECTS; GEOMETRIC SIZES; OUTER RACES; ROLLING ELEMENT BEARINGS; SEEDED DEFECTS; TEST BEARINGS;

DEFECTS;

EID: 55049087925     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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