Vibration monitoring for fault diagnosis of helicopter planetry gears

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 16, Issue , 2005, Pages 755-760

  Wu, Biqing ^a   Saxena, Abhinav ^a   Patrick, Romano ^a   Vachtsevanos, George ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis; Feature extraction; Planetary gear carrier plate crack; Time synchronous averaging; Vibration measurement and data analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; EPICYCLIC GEARS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; VIBRATION ANALYSIS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

CARRIER PLATES; DATA PREPROCESSING; FAULT CLASSIFIER; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; PLANETARY GEARBOXES; PLANETARY GEARS; TIME SYNCHRONOUS AVERAGING; VIBRATION MONITORING;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 79960702345     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20050703-6-cz-1902.00127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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