Pitting fault detection of a wind turbine gearbox using empirical mode decomposition

Strojniski Vestnik/Journal of Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-20

  Teng, Wei ^a,b   Wang, Feng ^a   Zhang, Kaili ^a   Liu, Yibing ^a   Ding, Xian ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptively; Empirical mode decomposition; Fault detection; Gearbox; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); DECOMPOSITION; DEMODULATION; GEARS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MECHANICAL DRIVES; MODULATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PITTING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIBRATION ANALYSIS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WIND TURBINES;

ADAPTIVELY; DEMODULATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; GEARBOX; INTRINSIC MODE FUNCTIONS; MECHANICAL DRIVE SYSTEM; MODULATION INFORMATION; WIND TURBINE GEARBOXES;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 84988712379     PISSN: 00392480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5545/sv-jme.2013.1295     Document Type: Article

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