A windowing and mapping strategy for gear tooth fault detection of a planetary gearbox

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

Volumn 80, Issue , 2016, Pages 445-459

  Liang, Xihui ^a   Zuo, Ming J ^a   Liu, Libin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic modeling; Effect of transmission path; Fault detection; Gear crack; Signal decomposition; Windowing and mapping

Indexed keywords

CRACK DETECTION; CRACKS; DYNAMIC MODELS; FAULT DETECTION; GEAR TEETH; GEARS; MAPPING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GEAR TOOTH FAULTS; HEALTH CONDITION; MAPPING STRATEGY; PLANETARY GEARBOXES; SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION; SIMULATED VIBRATIONS; TRANSMISSION PATHS; VIBRATION SIGNAL;

VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 84975144428     PISSN: 08883270     EISSN: 10961216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2016.04.034     Document Type: Article

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