Although tremendous effort has been applied to develop reliable strategies for detecting tooth cracks of gearboxes, these methods have generally fallen short of the required performance. Cracks are usually initiated at the root of a tooth and are very difficult to be identified from time-domain measurement. The vibration signal transformed by wavelet is sensitive to energy change. In this study, the transient vibration variations induced by different sizes of cracks at the tooth root are captured using wavelet. Firstly, as the main parametric excitation, the time-varying gear meshing stiffness caused by the alternating of engaged gear teeth is accurately calculated based on energy method, in which comprehensive deformations including Hertz contact, axial compression, bending, shearing and fillet-foundation deflection are taken into consideration. Moreover, a sophisticated dynamic theoretical model is used to simulate a practical gear system. Unique vibration signatures are captured through the comparison of cracked and perfect gear system.
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ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
August 2–5, 2015
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Design Engineering Division
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Fault Detection of Gears With Different Root Crack Size Using Wavelet
Xi Wu,
Xi Wu
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
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Jim Meagher
Jim Meagher
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
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Xinpeng Hu
Jilin University, Changchun, China
Xi Wu
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Jixin Wang
Jilin University, Changchun, China
Jim Meagher
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Paper No:
DETC2015-47263, V010T11A024; 9 pages
Published Online:
January 19, 2016
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Hu, X, Wu, X, Wang, J, & Meagher, J. "Fault Detection of Gears With Different Root Crack Size Using Wavelet." Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 10: ASME 2015 Power Transmission and Gearing Conference; 23rd Reliability, Stress Analysis, and Failure Prevention Conference. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. August 2–5, 2015. V010T11A024. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2015-47263
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