Rotor-bar breakage mechanism and prognosis in an induction motor

© 1982-2012 IEEE. This paper proposes a condition-based maintenance and prognostics and health management (CBM/PHM) procedure for a rotor bar in an induction motor. The methodology is based on the results of a fatigue test intended to reproduce in the most natural way a bar breakage in order to carry out a comparison between transient and stationary diagnosis methods for incipient fault detection. Newly developed techniques in stator-current transient analysis have allowed tracking the developing fault during the last part of the test, identifying the failure mechanism, and establishing a physical model of the process. This nonlinear failure model is integrated in a particle filtering algorithm to diagnose the defect at an early stage and predict the remaining useful life of the bar. An initial generalization of the results to conditions differing from the ones under which the fatigue test was developed is studied

Adaptive Parameter Identification Based on Morlet Wavelet and Application in Gearbox Fault Feature Detection

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Localized defects in rotating mechanical parts tend to result in impulse response in vibration signal, which contain important information about system dynamics being analyzed. Thus, parameter identification of impulse response provides a potential approach for localized fault diagnosis. A method combining the Morlet wavelet and correlation filtering, named Cyclic Morlet Wavelet Correlation Filtering (CMWCF), is proposed for identifying both parameters of impulse response and the cyclic period between adjacent impulses. Simulation study concerning cyclic impulse response signal with different SNR shows that CMWCF is effective in identifying the impulse response parameters and the cyclic period. Applications in parameter identification of gearbox vibration signal for localized fault diagnosis show that CMWCF is effective in identifying the parameters and thus provides a feature detection method for gearbox fault diagnosis. 1