Condition monitoring of a single-stage gearbox with artificially induced gear cracks utilizing on-line vibration and acoustic emission measurements

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1148-1159

  Loutas, T H ^a   Sotiriades, G ^a   Kalaitzoglou, I ^a   Kostopoulos, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Advanced signal processing; Condition monitoring; Gearbox; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC EMISSION SIGNAL; ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; GEAR SYSTEM; GEARBOX; NON DESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION; SINGLE STAGE; TEST TIME; VIBRATION; WAVE FORMS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTICS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEAR MANUFACTURE; GEARS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

CONDITION MONITORING;

EID: 65849462240     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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