Experimental and Numerical Study of Vibration Monitoring Applied on Gear Transmission Systems

Abstract

Predictive maintenance asks for efficient indicators and methods to detect incipient failures. Numerous studies have been made in this domain, but some difficulties stay to isolate the defected elements, to foresee through signal analysis, causes that produce faults, especially when different technological elements are involved simultaneously (gears, bearings, ...). In the first part of this paper, experimental study have been performed on gear faults: manufacturing faults (profile error, deviation, ...) and operating faults (wear, pitting,...) in order to establish a kind of data base for fault identification. Then, operating faults were examined and a procedure of identification of faults nature have been developed. Statistical treatment of both time and time- frequency (wavelet analysis) domains give arise to robust indicators. The second part deals with the definition of thresholds for machinery stops. Calculations of the dynamic behavior of the geared system show that how a gear fault modify the gear profile and the kinematic transmission error, while stiffness modification have almost no significant effect on the system response.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADP010166

Entities

People

  • C. Bard
  • D. Play
  • J. Mahfoudh

Organizations

  • Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Coefficients
  • Computational Science
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Dc Motors
  • Dynamic Loads
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Experimental Design
  • Frequency
  • Gears
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Peak Values
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Time Domain

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Tribology (the study of the boundary interaction between sliding surfaces, lubrication, wear and friction).