Detection of Bearing Faults Using a Novel Adaptive Morphological Update Lifting Wavelet

The current morphological wavelet technologies utilize a fixed filter or a linear decomposition algorithm,which cannot cope with the sudden changes, such as impulses or edges in a signal effectively. This paper presents a novel signal processing scheme, adaptive morphological update lifting wavelet(AMULW), for rolling element bearing fault detection. In contrast with the widely used morphological wavelet, the filters in AMULW are no longer fixed. Instead, the AMULW adaptively uses a morphological dilation-erosion filter or an average filter as the update lifting filter to modify the approximation signal.Moreover, the nonlinear morphological filter is utilized to substitute the traditional linear filter in AMULW. The effectiveness of the proposed AMULW is evaluated using a simulated vibration signal and experimental vibration signals collected from a bearing test rig. Results show that the proposed method has a superior performance in extracting fault features of defective rolling element bearings.

Anchoring Bolt Detection Based on Morphological Filtering and Variational Modal Decomposition

The pull test is a damaging detection method that fails to measure the actual length of a bolt.Thus,the ultrasonic echo is an important non?destructive testing method for bolt quality detection.In this research,the variational modal decomposition(VMD)method is introduced into the bolt detection signal analysis.On the basis of morphological filtering(MF)and the VMD method,a VMD?combined MF principle is established into a bolt detection signal analysis method(MF?VMD).MF?VMD is used to analyze the vibration and actual bolt detection signals of the simulation.Results show that MF?VMD effectively separates intrinsic mode function,even under strong interference.In comparison with conventional VMD method,the proposed method can remove noise interference.An intrinsic mode function of the field detection signal can be effectively identified by reflecting the signal at the bottom of the bolt.