Spring operation mechanism is widely used in high voltage circuit breakers, and its reliability is related to the ability of the circuit breaker breaking fault current. During the life cycle of spring operating mechanism, stress relaxation, metal fatigue, and any other mechanical defects are easily occurring. And the mechanical performance of the circuit breaker will be influenced by the above defects. Therefore, identifying and predicting the mechanical conditions of the spring operation mechanism can improve the reliability of the circuit breaker. In the present paper, the 252 kV circuit breakers are used as test objects. Firstly, the spring stress relaxation test, the life-cycle test, and the failure simulated test of 252 kV circuit breakers are carried out. Secondly, a multi-body dynamics simulation model of the experimental prototype is established. Thirdly, support vector machine, random forest, and deep neural network are used in the condition identification of the circuit breaker to compare their performances. Then, the prediction model of spring in stress relaxation test is built, however, the model is not suitable for the life-cycle test of repeat close-open operation. Finally, the remaining useful life prediction model is proposed by using Wiener Process.
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