An approach to fault diagnosis for gearbox based on reconstructed energy and support vector machine

Normally sensors can only be mounted on the outer shell of gearbox, which induce more difficulties to diagnose gearbox such as serious noise contamination, signal coupling and transmission path effect. Taking into account the unique structural characteristics of gearbox, this paper presents a novel method of using reconstructed energy and Support Vector Machine (SVM) to diagnose various failure or fault modes of gears, shafts and bearings. First, FFT is performed to get the frequency domain information of raw vibration signals. Then, a series of reconstruction filters are designed to remove unwanted information and enhance signal components of interest, which correspond to specific fault information of various elements. Finally, SVM is utilized to classify different faults such as bent shaft, broken gear and defect bearing. The proposed approach has proved to be effective in solving gearbox faults classification of the 2009 PHM Conference Data Analysis Competition

Study of pressure shock characteristics of pump-controlled hydraulic steering system

Owing to the complex working conditions, large load changes and inertia of variable pump, pressure shock seriously lowers the efficiency, stability and accuracy of pump-controlled hydraulic steering system. To study the pressure shock characteristics, a physical model of pump-controlled hydraulic steering system was deduced first, and the system dynamic characteristics were simulated by MATLAB/SIMULINK; then the AMESim model was also established to analyze the shock pressure further. By comparison with the simulation results in SIMULINK, the validity of AMESim model is verified. Based on AMESim model, the influence of the navigation speed, spring stiffness of feedback mechanism and rudder angular velocity to the shock characteristics were analyzed specially. According to the results, the design and control methods to reduce hydraulic shock are obtained, which provide a theoretical basis for improving the characteristics of pump-controlled rudder

Study on coalescence dynamics of unequal-sized microbubbles captive on solid substrate

The dynamics of bubble coalescence are of importance for a number of industrial processes, in which the size inequality of the parent bubbles plays a significant role in mass transport, topological change and overall motion. In this study, coalescence of unequal-sized microbubbles captive on a solid substrate was observed from cross-section view using synchrotron high-speed imaging technique and a microfluidic gas generation device. The bridging neck growth and surface wave propagation at the early stage of coalescence were investigated by experimental and numerical methods. The results show that theoretical half-power-law of neck growth rate is still valid when viscous effect is neglected. However, the inertial-capillary time scale is associated with the initial radius of the smaller parent microbubble. The surface wave propagation rate on the larger parent microbubble is proportional to the inertial-capillary time scale

A high-performance Web Graphics Library-based Automatic Identification System data visualization platform

The magnitude of global AIS data exceeds the capability of conventional in-browser graphic rendering technologies like Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Canvas. Normal practices of rendering AIS data in browser will either suffer from low frame rates or will have to limit the total number of visual elements. In this project, by generating Web Graphics Library (WebGL) sprites to reduce draw calls, my visualization program is capable of rendering more than 66,000 marine vessels on the screen with high frame rates and time-accurate animations. Furthermore, this program supports on-the-fly map re-projection for both the globe object and rendered AIS vessel data to get the best use of seven different map projections

No-Reference Light Field Image Quality Assessment Based on Micro-Lens Image

Light field image quality assessment (LF-IQA) plays a significant role due to its guidance to Light Field (LF) contents acquisition, processing and application. The LF can be represented as 4-D signal, and its quality depends on both angular consistency and spatial quality. However, few existing LF-IQA methods concentrate on effects caused by angular inconsistency. Especially, no-reference methods lack effective utilization of 2-D angular information. In this paper, we focus on measuring the 2-D angular consistency for LF-IQA. The Micro-Lens Image (MLI) refers to the angular domain of the LF image, which can simultaneously record the angular information in both horizontal and vertical directions. Since the MLI contains 2-D angular information, we propose a No-Reference Light Field image Quality assessment model based on MLI (LF-QMLI). Specifically, we first utilize Global Entropy Distribution (GED) and Uniform Local Binary Pattern descriptor (ULBP) to extract features from the MLI, and then pool them together to measure angular consistency. In addition, the information entropy of Sub-Aperture Image (SAI) is adopted to measure spatial quality. Extensive experimental results show that LF-QMLI achieves the state-of-the-art performance

Spatial and Temporal Scaling of Unequal Microbubble Coalescence

We numerically study coalescence of air microbubbles in water, with density ratio 833 and viscosity ratio 50.5, using lattice Boltzmann method. The focus is on the effects of size inequality of parent bubbles on the interfacial dynamics and coalescence time. Twelve cases, varying the size ratio of large to small parent bubble from 5.33 to 1, are systematically investigated. The “coalescence preference,” coalesced bubble closer to the larger parent bubble, is well observed and the captured power-law relation between the preferential relative distance χ and size inequality γ, math formula, is consistent to the recent experimental observations. Meanwhile, the coalescence time also exhibits power-law scaling as math formula, indicating that unequal bubbles coalesce faster than equal bubbles. Such a temporal scaling of coalescence on size inequality is believed to be the first-time observation as the fast coalescence of microbubbles is generally hard to be recorded through laboratory experimentation

Understanding Microbubble Coalescence Using High-Speed Imaging and Lattice Boltzmann Method Simulation

poster abstractMicrobubble coalescence is one of the important research areas of bubble dynamics. The purpose of this research is to seek deeper understanding and relative mathematical relation on microbubble coalescence. To fulfill that, we conducted both experiments and simulations. For the part of experiment, we fabricated a microfluidic gas generator with better performance leading corresponding fluidic chemical reaction. After that we utilized ultrafast synchrotron X-ray imaging facility at the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory to capture the gas generating and microbubble merging phenomena using high speed imaging. These experiments show how the microbubbles with the same ratio contact and merge in the reaction channel and different concentration of reactants. As for the part of simulation, we lead the simulation basing on lattice Boltzmann method to simulate microbubble coalescence in water with unequal diameter ratio. Focuses are on the effects of size inequality of parent bubbles on the coalescence geometry and time. The “coalescence preference” of coalesced bubble closer to the larger parent bubble is well captured. A power-law relation between the preferential relative distance and size inequality is consistent to the recent experimental observations. Meanwhile, the coalescence time also exhibits power-law scaling, indicating that unequal bubbles coalesce faster than equal bubbles

Spatial and Temporal Scaling of Unequal Microbubble Coalescence

poster abstractWe numerically study coalescence of air microbubble in water, with density ratio 833 and viscosity ratio 50.5, using lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Focuses are on the effects of size inequality of parent bubbles on the coalescence geometry and time and underlying dynamics of unequal microbubble coalescence. Twelve cases, varying the size ratio of large to small parent bubble γ from 5.33 to 1, are systematically investigated. The “coalescence preference” of coalesced bubble closer to the larger parent bubble is well captured. A power-law relation between the preferential relative distance χ and size inequality γ as χ ∼ γ−2.079 is consistent to the recent experimental observations. Meanwhile, the coalescence time also exhibits power-law scaling as T ∼ γ−0.7, implying that unequal bubbles coalesce faster than equal bubbles. Such a time scaling of coalescence on size inequality is believed the first-time observation as the fast coalescence of microbubbles is generally hard to be recorded through laboratory experimentation