Separation and enhancement of gear and bearing signals for the diagnosis of wind turbine transmission systems

Wind Energy

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 729-743

  Sawalhi, Nader ^a   Randall, Robert B ^b   Forrester, David ^c  

^a PRINCE MOHAMMAD BIN FAHD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

cepstrum; diagnosis; gears; pre whitening; pseudo encoder; rolling element bearings; synchronous average

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; DIAGNOSIS; EPICYCLIC GEARS; GEARS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; SIGNAL ENCODING; VIBRATION ANALYSIS; WIND TURBINES;

CEPSTRUM; PRE-WHITENING; PSEUDO-ENCODER; ROLLING ELEMENT BEARING; SYNCHRONOUS AVERAGE;

ROLLER BEARINGS;

ALGORITHM; DESIGN; LUBRICANT; SHAFT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFTWARE; VIBRATION; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84897578390     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1671     Document Type: Article

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