International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering
Published by Chaoyang University of Technology

M. Chandra Sekhar Reddya and A. S. Sekharb*

aResearch Scholar, Mechanical Engg. Dept., IIT Madras, Chennai, India
bProfessor, Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Madras, Chennai, India


 

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ABSTRACT


Rotating machinery is common in any industry. Rotating machinery in the modern era are designed for higher running speeds, tighter clearances and working under extreme conditions enhancing efficiency of the system to produce and transmit more power. All these lead to many rotordynamic challenges. Main cause of vibrations is faults in the rotating systems like unbalance, looseness, etc. In this paper a method is proposed to identify unbalance and looseness in rotor bearing system using artificial neural networks (ANN) by two different methods; one is by statistical features and the second by amplitude in frequency domain. In the first case statistical features are used to train and test the ANN, and in the second case amplitude in frequency domain is used to train and test the ANN. Experiments are conducted on the rotor bearing system running at 40 Hz and vibration data is collected by simulating different unbalance conditions in the rotor. And also experiments are conducted by creating looseness in the system by loosening the pedestal bolt. Various statistical features and amplitudes in frequency domain are extracted separately from this vibration data and are fed to neural network. It is observed that statistical features are giving good results over frequency domain amplitudes. ANNs are used to identify the unbalance severity and looseness. These results are useful for making maintenance decision.


Keywords: Unbalance; looseness; rotor; vibration analysis; neural networks


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ARTICLE INFORMATION


Received: 2012-05-31
Revised: 2012-09-24
Accepted: 2012-10-08
Available Online: 2013-03-01


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Reddy, M.C.S., Sekhar, A.S. 2013. Application of artificial neural networks for identification of unbalance and looseness in rotor bearing systems. International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering, 11, 69–84. https://doi.org/10.6703/IJASE.2013.11(1).69