Automated monitoring of airgap eccentricity for inverter-fed induction motors under standstill conditions

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1257-1266

  Hyun, Doosoo ^a   Hong, Jongman ^a   Lee, Sang Bin ^a   Kim, Kwonhee ^a   Wiedenbrug, Ernesto J ^b   Teska, Mike ^b   Nandi, Subhasis ^c   Chelvan, Ilamparithi Thilumarai ^c  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b SKF Group   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AC machine; airgap eccentricity; condition monitoring; diagnostics; induction motors; inverters; offline testing; spectrum analysis

Indexed keywords

AC MACHINE; AIRGAP ECCENTRICITY; DIAGNOSTICS; INVERTERS; OFFLINE TESTING;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; CONDITION MONITORING; ELECTRIC MOTORS; INTERFEROMETRY; LOAD TESTING; MAGNETIC DEVICES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

INDUCTION MOTORS;

EID: 79956358943     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2011.2126010     Document Type: Article

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