Seeded fault detection on helical gears with acoustic emission

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 547-555

  Eftekharnejad, Babak ^a   Mba, D ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic Emission; Helical gear; Protrusion; Seeded defect; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTICS; DEFECTS; FAULT DETECTION; GEAR MANUFACTURE; GEARS; SPUR GEARS;

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HEALTH MONITORING; MESHING GEARS; PROTRUSION; ROTATING MACHINES; SEEDED DEFECT; VIBRATION; VIBRATION SIGNATURES;

HELICAL GEARS;

EID: 58349119979     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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