Rotational machine health monitoring and fault detection using EMD-based acoustic emission feature quantification

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 990-1001

  Li, Ruoyu ^a   He, David ^b  

^a SKF USA Inc   (United States)

^b 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission (AE); empirical mode decomposition (EMD); fault detection; health monitoring; split torque gearbox (STG)

Indexed keywords

AE SIGNALS; DE-NOISED SIGNALS; DE-NOISING TECHNIQUES; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; GEAR FAULT DETECTION; HEALTH MONITORING; MACHINE HEALTH MONITORING; MULTIPLE FEATURES; SPLIT-TORQUE GEARBOX (STG); VIBRATION SIGNAL;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; FAULT DETECTION; SIGNAL DENOISING;

CONDITION MONITORING;

EID: 84863412156     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2179819     Document Type: Article

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