The phenomenon of logical stochastic resonance (LSR) in a nonlinear bistable system is demonstrated by numerical simulations and experiments. However, the bit rates of the logical signals are relatively low and not ...The phenomenon of logical stochastic resonance (LSR) in a nonlinear bistable system is demonstrated by numerical simulations and experiments. However, the bit rates of the logical signals are relatively low and not suitable for practical applications. First, we examine the responses of the bistable system with fixed parameters to different bit rate logic input signals, showing that an arbitrary high bit rate LSR in a bistable system cannot be achieved. Then, a normalized transform of the LSR bistable system is introduced through a kind of variable substitution. Based on the transform, it is found that LSR for arbitrary high bit rate logic signals in a bistable system can be achieved by adjusting the parameters of the system, setting bias value and amplifying the amplitudes of logic input signals and noise properly. Finally, the desired OR and AND logic outputs to high bit rate logic inputs in a bistable system are obtained by numerical simulations. The study might provide higher feasibility of LSR in practical engineering applications.展开更多
Failure of induction motors are a large concern due to its influence over industrial production. Motor current signature analysis (MCSA) is common practice in industry to find motor faults. This paper presents a new a...Failure of induction motors are a large concern due to its influence over industrial production. Motor current signature analysis (MCSA) is common practice in industry to find motor faults. This paper presents a new approach to detection and diagnosis of motor bearing faults based on induction motor stator current analysis. Tests were performed with three bearing conditions: baseline, outer race fault and inner race fault. Because the signals associated with faults produce small modulations to supply component and high nose levels, a modulation signal bispectrum (MSB) is used in this paper to detect and diagnose different motor bearing defects. The results show that bearing faults can induced a detestable amplitude increases at its characteristic frequencies. MSB peaks show a clear difference at these frequencies whereas conventional power spectrum provides change evidences only at some of the frequencies. This shows that MSB has a better and reliable performance in extract small changes from the faulty bearing for fault detection and diagnosis. In addition, the study also show that current signals from motors with variable frequency drive controller have too much noise and it is unlikely to discriminate the small bearing fault component.展开更多
Periodical impulse component is one of typical fault characteristics in vibration signals from rotating machinery. However, this component is very small in the early stage of the fault and masked by various noises suc...Periodical impulse component is one of typical fault characteristics in vibration signals from rotating machinery. However, this component is very small in the early stage of the fault and masked by various noises such as gear meshing components modulated by shaft frequency, which make it difficult to extract accurately for fault detection. The adaptive line enhancer (ALE) is an effective technique for separating sinusoidals from broad-band components of an input signal for detecting the presence of sinusoids in white noise. In this paper, ALE is explored to suppress the periodical gear meshing frequencies and enhance the fault feature impulses for more accurate fault diagnosis. The results obtained from simulated and experimental vibration signals of a two stage helical gearbox prove that the ALE method is very effective in reducing the periodical gear meshing noise and making the impulses in vibration very clear in the time-frequency analysis. The results show a clear difference between the baseline and 30% tooth damage of a helical gear which has not been detected successfully in author’s previous studies.展开更多
Diagnostics and condition monitoring are aspects of a field of engineering that aims to manage the health of engineering machinery and structures,but which has increasing applicability to many other complex systems in...Diagnostics and condition monitoring are aspects of a field of engineering that aims to manage the health of engineering machinery and structures,but which has increasing applicability to many other complex systems in the world from the medical care of people,through the reliability of supply chain logistics to the secure operation of a large and complex organisation.The management of health generally requires a number of sequential steps,which are usually as follows:the detection of any abnormality in the procedural operation of the system,the location of the abnormal behaviour within the system,an assessment of the severity of the abnormality and identification of the potential system vulnerabilities that result from it,a detailed diagnosis of the problem including the identification of its root cause,and finally a predictive assessment of the future prospects for the continued operation of the system,including any remedial action that should be taken to minimise impact and maximise continued operational performance.展开更多
This paper presents a new method for modelling and simulation of the dynamic behaviour of the wheel-rail contact. The proposed dynamic wheel-rail contact model comprises wheel-rail contact geometry, normal contact pro...This paper presents a new method for modelling and simulation of the dynamic behaviour of the wheel-rail contact. The proposed dynamic wheel-rail contact model comprises wheel-rail contact geometry, normal contact problem, tangential contact problem and wheelset dynamic behaviour on the track. This two-degree of freedom model takes into account the lateral displacement of the wheelset and the yaw angle. Single wheel tread rail contact is considered for all simulations and Kalker’s linear theory and heuristic non-linear creep models are employed. The second order differential equations are reduced to first order and the forward velocity of the wheelset is increased until the wheelset critical velocity is reached. This approach does not require solving mathematical equations in order to estimate the critical velocity of the dynamic wheel-rail contact model. The mathematical model is implemented in Matlab using numerical differentiation method. The simulated results compare well with the estimated results based on classical theory related to the dynamic behaviour of rail-wheel contact so the model is validated.展开更多
With loudness-equalized car interior noise as sound stimuli, the work focused on apphcabihty of nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) to sound quality research. It is presented that NMDS is an effective tool for...With loudness-equalized car interior noise as sound stimuli, the work focused on apphcabihty of nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) to sound quality research. It is presented that NMDS is an effective tool for subjective assessment research of sound quality, when listeners are clustered through correlation between hsteners. With this key clustering process, the perceptual structure of car interior noise with strong consistency is revealed. The results shown that: for car interior noise, ‘preference' can be regarded as a main sub-dimension in ‘similarity' space and listeners could be divided into two groups; For both groups of listeners, the perceptual ‘preference' can be characterized as one-dimensional descriptor, with one group has a positive relation to ‘low-frequency', while another group has a negative relation to ‘low- frequency'.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51379526)
文摘The phenomenon of logical stochastic resonance (LSR) in a nonlinear bistable system is demonstrated by numerical simulations and experiments. However, the bit rates of the logical signals are relatively low and not suitable for practical applications. First, we examine the responses of the bistable system with fixed parameters to different bit rate logic input signals, showing that an arbitrary high bit rate LSR in a bistable system cannot be achieved. Then, a normalized transform of the LSR bistable system is introduced through a kind of variable substitution. Based on the transform, it is found that LSR for arbitrary high bit rate logic signals in a bistable system can be achieved by adjusting the parameters of the system, setting bias value and amplifying the amplitudes of logic input signals and noise properly. Finally, the desired OR and AND logic outputs to high bit rate logic inputs in a bistable system are obtained by numerical simulations. The study might provide higher feasibility of LSR in practical engineering applications.
文摘Failure of induction motors are a large concern due to its influence over industrial production. Motor current signature analysis (MCSA) is common practice in industry to find motor faults. This paper presents a new approach to detection and diagnosis of motor bearing faults based on induction motor stator current analysis. Tests were performed with three bearing conditions: baseline, outer race fault and inner race fault. Because the signals associated with faults produce small modulations to supply component and high nose levels, a modulation signal bispectrum (MSB) is used in this paper to detect and diagnose different motor bearing defects. The results show that bearing faults can induced a detestable amplitude increases at its characteristic frequencies. MSB peaks show a clear difference at these frequencies whereas conventional power spectrum provides change evidences only at some of the frequencies. This shows that MSB has a better and reliable performance in extract small changes from the faulty bearing for fault detection and diagnosis. In addition, the study also show that current signals from motors with variable frequency drive controller have too much noise and it is unlikely to discriminate the small bearing fault component.
文摘Periodical impulse component is one of typical fault characteristics in vibration signals from rotating machinery. However, this component is very small in the early stage of the fault and masked by various noises such as gear meshing components modulated by shaft frequency, which make it difficult to extract accurately for fault detection. The adaptive line enhancer (ALE) is an effective technique for separating sinusoidals from broad-band components of an input signal for detecting the presence of sinusoids in white noise. In this paper, ALE is explored to suppress the periodical gear meshing frequencies and enhance the fault feature impulses for more accurate fault diagnosis. The results obtained from simulated and experimental vibration signals of a two stage helical gearbox prove that the ALE method is very effective in reducing the periodical gear meshing noise and making the impulses in vibration very clear in the time-frequency analysis. The results show a clear difference between the baseline and 30% tooth damage of a helical gear which has not been detected successfully in author’s previous studies.
文摘Diagnostics and condition monitoring are aspects of a field of engineering that aims to manage the health of engineering machinery and structures,but which has increasing applicability to many other complex systems in the world from the medical care of people,through the reliability of supply chain logistics to the secure operation of a large and complex organisation.The management of health generally requires a number of sequential steps,which are usually as follows:the detection of any abnormality in the procedural operation of the system,the location of the abnormal behaviour within the system,an assessment of the severity of the abnormality and identification of the potential system vulnerabilities that result from it,a detailed diagnosis of the problem including the identification of its root cause,and finally a predictive assessment of the future prospects for the continued operation of the system,including any remedial action that should be taken to minimise impact and maximise continued operational performance.
文摘This paper presents a new method for modelling and simulation of the dynamic behaviour of the wheel-rail contact. The proposed dynamic wheel-rail contact model comprises wheel-rail contact geometry, normal contact problem, tangential contact problem and wheelset dynamic behaviour on the track. This two-degree of freedom model takes into account the lateral displacement of the wheelset and the yaw angle. Single wheel tread rail contact is considered for all simulations and Kalker’s linear theory and heuristic non-linear creep models are employed. The second order differential equations are reduced to first order and the forward velocity of the wheelset is increased until the wheelset critical velocity is reached. This approach does not require solving mathematical equations in order to estimate the critical velocity of the dynamic wheel-rail contact model. The mathematical model is implemented in Matlab using numerical differentiation method. The simulated results compare well with the estimated results based on classical theory related to the dynamic behaviour of rail-wheel contact so the model is validated.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10374099, 10374071).
文摘With loudness-equalized car interior noise as sound stimuli, the work focused on apphcabihty of nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) to sound quality research. It is presented that NMDS is an effective tool for subjective assessment research of sound quality, when listeners are clustered through correlation between hsteners. With this key clustering process, the perceptual structure of car interior noise with strong consistency is revealed. The results shown that: for car interior noise, ‘preference' can be regarded as a main sub-dimension in ‘similarity' space and listeners could be divided into two groups; For both groups of listeners, the perceptual ‘preference' can be characterized as one-dimensional descriptor, with one group has a positive relation to ‘low-frequency', while another group has a negative relation to ‘low- frequency'.