Application of acoustic emission to seeded gear fault detection

NDT and E International

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-36

  Toutountzakis, Tim ^a   Tan, Chee Keong ^a   Mba, David ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Condition monitoring; Gear fault diagnosis; Machine health diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BALL BEARINGS; CONDITION MONITORING; CRACK PROPAGATION; DIAGNOSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; ROTATING MACHINERY; SENSORS;

GEAR FAULT DIAGNOSIS; GEAR PIT DETECTION; GEARBOXES; MACHINE HEALTH DIAGNOSIS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS;

EID: 6344219501     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2004.06.008     Document Type: Article

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