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Condition Monitoring of Slow‐Speed Shafts and Bearings with Acoustic Emission
Author(s) -
Elforjani M.,
Mba D.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
strain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.477
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1475-1305
pISSN - 0039-2103
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-1305.2010.00776.x
Subject(s) - acoustic emission , bearing (navigation) , condition monitoring , engineering , acoustics , structural engineering , rotational speed , degradation (telecommunications) , materials science , mechanical engineering , computer science , electrical engineering , physics , artificial intelligence
For various rotating machinery applications, condition monitoring using high‐frequency Acoustic emission (AE) technology has remained a subject of intense study since the late 1960s. This paper demonstrates the results of an investigation for detecting and monitoring natural crack initiation and propagation in slow‐speed rotating machinery with the AE technology. In addition to highlighting previous work published by the authors [1–3] on condition monitoring of slow‐speed rotating machinery, this paper presents experimental results on accelerated bearing fatigue under starved lubricating conditions. For these investigations, purpose‐built test rigs were employed for generating natural degradation on both a bearing and a shaft. It is concluded that crack initiation and propagation on slow‐speed bearings and shafts can be detected with the AE technology.