Current-based diagnosis for gear tooth breaks in wind turbine gearboxes

2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3780-3786

  Lu, Dingguo ^a   Gong, Xiang ^a   Qiao, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive resampling; condition monitoring; current; fault diagnosis; gearbox; permanent magnet (PM) generator; tooth break; wind turbine (WT)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SIGNALS; CHARACTERISTIC FREQUENCIES; DRIVE TRAIN; FAULT CHARACTERISTICS; FAULT DETECTOR; FAULT SIGNATURE; GEARBOX; GENERATOR STATORS; RESAMPLING; STATOR CURRENTS; TOOTH BREAK; VARIABLE SPEED;

CONDITION MONITORING; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXHIBITIONS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GEAR TEETH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; STATORS; WIND TURBINES;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS;

EID: 84870880556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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