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Rolling element bearings are at the heart of most rotating machines and they bear the function of connectivity between the rotor and stator. It is important to distinguish the incipient fault before the bearing step into serious failure. The Slip Matrix (SM) construction method based on Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is proposed in this paper. The SM based fault feature extraction and impulses intelligent detection methods are introduced as the key steps for rolling bearing fault diagnosis. The numerical simulation of rolling bearing fault signal is adopted which shows that the proposed method is good at fault impulses detection in strong background noise environment. The rolling element bearing accelerated life test is performed for the acquisition of experimental data of rolling bearing fault. With the rolling bearing running from normal state to failure, the initial fault signal part can be picked out from the whole life vibration data of the rolling bearing. The vibration signal is close to the nature fault signal which is acquired from a rolling bearing applied in industrial field. The analysis result shows that the proposed method has an excellent performance in rolling bearing fault detection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to planetary movement of planet gears, the vibration signal perceived by a stationary sensor is modulated and difficult to diagnose. This paper proposed a vibration separation methodology compensated by a time-varying transfer function (TVTF-VS), which is a further development of the vibration separation (VS) method in the diagnosis of non-hunting tooth planetary gearboxes. On the basis of VS, multi-teeth VS is proposed to extract and synthesize the meshing signal of a planet gear using a single transducer. Considering the movement regularity of a planetary gearbox, the time-varying transfer function (TVTF) is represented by a generalized expression. The TVTF is constructed using a segment of healthy signal and an evaluation indicator is established to optimize the parameters of the TVTF. The constructed TVTF is applied to overcome the amplitude modulation effect and highlight fault characteristics. After that, experiments with baseline, pitting, and compound localized faults planet gears were conducted on a non-hunting tooth planetary gearbox test rig, respectively. The results demonstrate that incipient failure on a planet gear can be detected effectively, and relative location of the local faults can be determined accurately. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]