Construction of the Health Monitoring System of a Machine Structure

When big power like an earthquake acts at the place that the machine is normally operating, abnormalities may occur to a machine. If the machine is operated without finding abnormally, danger may attain to mechanical fatal damage and a mechanical work pursuer. Therefore, detecting in the situation where mechanical abnormalities are operated is very important as a health monitoring system. In this research, the system that takes in the vibration wave on the rotation part of the machine currently rotated is constructed. A vibration wave is analyzed using time-frequency analysis (STFT, the Wigner distribution, wave let analysis) From the result, the system by which normal vibration and abnormal vibration are evaluated is constructed from random noise. As a result of comparing normal vibration with abnormal vibration, the peak may have occurred in the high frequency region. It turned out that the analysis result of an unsteady state has a peak 2000Hz–3000Hz of frequency domains, and 4000Hz–5000Hz also in STFT and Wigner distribution. I think that this becomes the important tool which distinguishes the stationary state and unsteady state in health monitoring.© 2009 ASME