A two-step vibration-sound signal fusion method for weak fault feature detection in rolling bearing systems

Abstract

The vibration and sound signals get widely applications in fault diagnosis of rolling bearing systems, but the detection accuracy is unstable at different measuring positions. This paper puts forward a two-step vibration-sound signal fusion method, in which sound signal fusion and vibration-sound signal fusion are executed respectively. The sound signals are fused through weighting to the vibration signal to reduce the influence by measuring positions, and the phase difference is eliminated by a sliding window on the time axis. Then a second fusion between the vibration signal and sound signal is conducted after normalization and superposition, and the performance of two-step fusion is compared with the existing direct fusion. Results show that the two-step fusion provides a larger signal-to-noise ratio, and the amplitudes of characteristic frequencies are also higher. A cascaded bistable stochastic resonance system is applied in the post-processing of the fusion signal to make the signal features more clear, and it is proved that the fault detection effect has an obvious improvement after the whole process. This method provides a new approach for weak fault feature detection in vibration and sound signals, and is of great significance for the maintenance of rolling bearing systems.

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