Fault Feature Enhanced Extraction and Fault Diagnosis Method of Vibrating Screen Bearings

Abstract

For mechanical equipment, bearings have a high incidence area of faults. A problem for bearings is that their fault characteristics include a vibrating screen exciter which is weak and thus easily covered in strong background noise, hence making the noise difficult to remove. In this paper, a noise reduction method based on singular value decomposition, improved by singular value’s unilateral ascent method (SSVD), and a fault feature enhancement method, i.e., variational mode decomposition, improved by revised whale algorithm optimization (RWOA-VMD), are proposed. These two methods are used in vibration signal processing with early faults of bearings having a vibrating screen and they have achieved significant application results. This paper also aims to construct a multi-modal feature matrix composed of energy entropy, singular value entropy, and power spectrum entropy, and then the early fault diagnosis of bearings of a vibrating screen exciter bearing is realized by using the proposed support vector machine, improved by the aquila optimizer algorithm (AO-SVM).

Keywords

• bearings of vibrating screen exciter
• noise reduction
• feature enhancement
• early fault diagnosis
• multi-modal feature matrix