Fault Diagnosis of Bearing Based on the Ultrasonic Amplitude Histogram
The bearing of rotating machine often fails due to the frictional forces of rolling element, such frictional forces often generate a series of ultrasound, and that is to say, there must be some necessary relationships between the faults of rotating machinery equipment and the ultrasound from the equipment. In this paper, the histogram method which is the simplest method in statistics is used to analyze the ultrasonic signals. Through the analysis, the bearing faults could be preliminarily diagnosed. A verification research with respect to vibration method is carried out to analyze the effectiveness and superiority of ultrasonic method by using the histogram. Extensive experiments have been performed in a bearing vibration measuring instrument, and the results indicated that the fault diagnosis method based on the ultrasonic amplitude histogram is more useful than the method based on the vibration amplitude histogram. In addition, it is more sensitive and more effective than the method based on vibration amplitude histogram.