Partial rub and looseness are common faults in rotating machinery due to the clearance between the rotor and the stator. These problems are the cause of malfunctions in rotating machinery since those create strange vibrations coming from impact and fr...
Partial rub and looseness are common faults in rotating machinery due to the clearance between the rotor and the stator. These problems are the cause of malfunctions in rotating machinery since those create strange vibrations coming from impact and friction. However, non-linear and non-stationary signals due to the impact and friction are difficult to identify. Therefore, exact time and frequency information are necessary. For those purpose, newly developed time-frequency analysis method, HHT(Hilbert-Huang Transform) is applied to the signals of partial rub and looseness. Comparison of conventional signal processing methods such as FFT, STFT and CWT has been made to verify the effectiveness of fault diagnosis using HHT. The results show that the impact signals are generated regularly when the partial rub is occurred, and then intermittent impact and friction are occurred as the increase of the looseness. Time and frequency information is represented exactly by using HHT.Consequently the features of rotor system with clearances are identified clearly.