Self-Adaptive Stochastic Resonance Rub-Impact Fault Identification Grounded on a New Signal Evaluation Index.

Large-sized rotating machines usually contain weak feature information of rub-impact fault, which is hard to extract. General scale transformation stochastic resonance (GSTSR) can match input signals with different frequencies by using the optimal barrier height and boost the weak fault feature in signals. The performance of GSTSR is determined by systemic parameters. When a rub-impact fault occurs between rotor and stator, vibration signals are often accompanied by an impact. Therefore, the paper takes advantage of sensibility of waveform factor to rub-impact fault information and margin factor to impact properties of signal and reconstructs a new signal evaluation index based on waveform and margin factors. The signal evaluation index is treated as the fitness function of grey wolf optimization (GWO) algorithm and combined with GSTSR to perform a comprehensive evaluation to rub-impact fault feature information. The result of comparison with conventional method (with signal to noise ratio (SNR) as fitness function) indicates that in case of extracting rub-impact fault features, the proposed method identifies a rotor-stator rub-impact fault more precisely than the classical method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]