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Bearing Faults Detection in Induction Ma
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Abstract -- Frequent defects of induction machines are due In the literature the bearing faults are classified according
to diverse bearing faults. The detection of such faults in their to:
incipient phase can decisively contribute to the prevention of • the location of the fault: inner race, outer race, balls,
unplanned breakdowns in industrial plants. In this paper the and cage;
detection of three types of bearing faults by means of statistical
processing of the stray fluxes measurements is detailed. The • the fault signature: single-point defects and
developed noninvasive method requires only both simple probes generalized roughness.
and easy computations. Numerous measurements had been Generalized roughness faults are the most frequent causes
performed for all the combinations of bearing faults, loads and of bearing failures. They usually occur in industrial
stray flux probes taken into study. All the results emphasized environment due to various mechanical causes which lead to
the effectiveness of the applied simple fault diagnosis method. a faster wear of the components of the bearing, especially of
Index Terms--ac machines, ball bearings, electric machines, the raceways and balls. Such faults can be easily determined
fault detection, fault diagnosis, induction motors, rotating because the bearing spins roughly or difficultly.
machines. The detection of single-point bearing defects is more
difficult. If a moving component passes over a defected
I. INTRODUCTION surface in the bearing, it creates a succession of oscillations
which repeat with each pass over the damaged area [5], [6].
E lectrical machines with small faults can still work, but
these faults will evolve in time and they may cause a The repetition frequency of the impact depends on the
position of the fault within the bearing and has an indirect
E complete breakdown. Preventive measures should be
taken in order to protect the machines.
Faults can occur in any part of the machine. These can be
impact on the current, magnetic flux, noise and vibration of
the machine.
of electrical or mechanical origin. The main electrical faults In this paper the detection of three types of single-point
can be in the stator and rotor windings (or cage) [1], [2]. bearing faults by means of statistical processing of the stray
Mechanical faults include bearing faults, air-gap eccentricity, fluxes measurements is presented. The developed
gearbox faults, misalignments, etc. The most of the failures noninvasive method requires only simple, even hand-made,
(about 40%) are related to the bearings [3]. The bearing magnetic flux probes and some easy computation steps.
faults do not cause immediate breakdown, but they evolve in
time until they produce a critical failure of the machine. II. BEARING FAULT DETECTION TECHNIQUES
Unfortunately these failures finally results both in costly Upon performing a literature survey on the bearing fault
repair costs and long downtimes. detection techniques it can be stated that a huge number of
The bearings faults can be caused by material fatigue, methods are proposed.
overheating, harsh environments, inadequate storage, A significant part of the papers are dealing with the
contamination, corrosion, wrong handling and installation, rolling bearings fault detection based on analyzing the stator
unbalanced loads, bearing currents, etc. [4]. However the current and the vibration of the electrical machines [7].
main cause of their failure is due to their poor lubrication, These methods essentially are based on finding some
which can be easily avoided by a correct maintenance plan. well-defined specific fault frequency components in the
spectrum of the current or vibration signals [8], [9].
Unfortunately vibration based monitoring techniques
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This paper was supported by the project "Improvement of the doctoral require expensive precise vibration sensors and special
studies quality in engineering science for development of the knowledge equipment. They also need direct access to the machine
based society-QDOC" contract no. POSDRU/107/1.5/S/78534, project under testing, which is not always possible in industrial
co-funded by the European Social Fund through the Sectorial Operational
Program Human Resources 2007-2013.
environment. On the other hand current monitoring requires
C. Harlişca and L. Szabó are with Department of Electrical Machines only simple current sensors [10]. The current monitoring
and Drives, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (e-mails: based techniques can be used to detect a large number of
Ciprian.Harlisca@mae.utcluj.ro, Lorand.Szabo@emd.utcluj.ro).
other faults, too: broken rotor bars, shorted windings, air-gap
L. Frosini and A. Albini are with Department of Electrical, Computer
and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy (e-mails: eccentricity [11], load faults, etc.
lucia@unipv.it, andrea.albini@unipv.it).
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Several research teams studied the detection of bearing grease.
faults in electrical machines by using the stray flux around The induction machine is joined with a magnetic powder
the motor [12], [13]. The stray flux of an electric machine is brake of 5 kW and 100 N·m through an elastic couple. The
the magnetic flux that radiates outside the housing of the load can be set and measured by using the control unit of the
machine. It is residual and undesirable, since it is not brake.
participating in the torque generation [14]. The standard measurements (of the RMS values of the
The stray flux detection used in electrical machines fault currents, voltages and active power) were performed via a
diagnosis is applied since about 30 years as an effective three phase power meter. The speed was measured with a
technique for noninvasive diagnosis since the sensor can be mechanical tachometer. For the phase current measurements
outside the machine without being necessary to measure a simple Hall-effect based current probe was used.
voltage, current or other electric or non-electric quantities For the specific stray flux measurements two magnetic
[15]. flux sensors were applied (see Fig. 3):
This method can be applied for detecting also other • a hand-made flux probe consisting of a semicircular
electrical machine faults, as stator winding faults [16], rotor ferrite core with a 44 mm outer and a 40 mm inner
defects [17] or voltage source dissymmetry [18]. diameter. The ferrite core is wound with 300 turns of
Also another diagnosis method, the Park's Vector enameled copper of 0.112 mm diameter [13].
Approach (PVA) is frequently used in detecting bearing • an industrial one, of M-343F-1204 type, produced by
faults [19], [20]. Emerson. It has a circular form and consists of several
In the last years several artificial intelligence (AI) based turns wound around an air-core. This probe can be
bearing fault detection methods were developed [21]. The used to measure the leakage axial flux and it is similar
most significant results were obtained by using artificial to most of the flux sensors cited in the literature, e.g.
neural networks (ANNs) [22], fuzzy logic [23], Support [29].
Vector Machine (SVM) approach [24], particle swarm
optimization (PSO) [25], Hilbert-based bispectral analysis
approach [26], etc.
Several other fault detection methods are based on
processing the measured signals by means of the wavelet
transform [27], [28].
b) commercial (Emerson)
Fig. 2. The applied flux probes
For a greater effectiveness of the measurements a first
order low pass RC filter (R = 1 kΩ, C = 82 F and a cut-off
Fig. 1. The experimental setup frequency of 1942 Hz) was connected to each of the probes
[30].
The grid connected three-phase 2445T4050 type (FIR
The flux and current probes were connected to a portable
Elettromeccanica S.R.L) induction machine has the
National Instruments data acquisition board and to a personal
following rated data: power 2.2 kW, current 8.7 / 5 A, speed
computer with NI LabVIEW software. The used data
2800 r/min.
acquisition board is a NI USB 6212 type with 16 analog
The induction machine has two NSK 6205Z type rolling
inputs, 16 bit resolution, an input range of ±10 V and a bus-
ball bearings with nine balls, which are lubricated with
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powered USB for high mobility. The data acquisition was
controlled through a special created virtual instrument, which
allowed the simultaneous data acquisition from all the
connected probes.
Bearing fault
0
Power density [dB]
−20
−40
−60
−80
−100
0 200 400 600 800 1000
Frequency [Hz]
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As it can be seen, several frequency components (mainly TABLE I
RESULTS FOR DAMAGED BEARING SEAL CONDITION
very close to the integer multiples of the fundamental) AT 50% OF THE RATED LOAD OBTAINED BY MEANS OF MEASURING
indicating a bearing fault can be clearly distinguished in the THE RADIAL FLUX ON THE END-WINDING
figure.
∆>2s
∆>5s
The implementation of the proposed statistical method
[Hz]
[dB]
[dB]
∆>s
mh
mf
∆ s
f
follows the subsequent steps [30]:
• each integer multiple of the fundamental, between 100 100 -40.74 -47.61 6.87 2.32
and 1000 Hz, is normalized with respect to the 50 Hz 150 -15.09 -14.03 -1.06 2.39
fundamental, as to be set at 0 dB. Only these harmonic 200 -48.89 -49.68 0.79 1.98
components were taken into study, since they do not 250 -13.49 -16.11 2.61 1.63
depend on the specific parameters of the machines 300 -48.33 -52.11 3.78 2.13
(e.g. number of rotor slots); 350 -24.90 -28.72 3.81 1.38
• for every harmonic component taken into account a 400 -62.99 -69.85 6.86 1.98
mean value of the ten acquisitions is computed, for 450 -35.63 -42.69 7.07 1.99
both the healthy and the faulty condition of the 500 -59.40 -72.00 12.60 1.93
550 -40.21 -51.32 11.11 2.22
machine (mh, mf, respectively);
600 -67.00 -74.77 7.77 1.87
• the difference of the mean values mentioned above
650 -47.30 -65.12 17.82 1.91
(d = mh - mf) is calculated; 700 -66.26 -73.82 7.55 2.05
• in order to evaluate the diagnostic content of the 750 -66.25 -66.61 0.35 1.43
processed data, the absolute value of the difference 800 -67.79 -71.77 3.99 1.22
(∆=|d|) is compared with the standard deviation (s) of 850 -46.63 -64.74 18.11 1.94
the harmonics in the case of the healthy motor. 900 -68.02 -73.19 5.17 1.13
Based on this comparison, three levels of fault 950 -60.44 -72.81 12.37 2.34
significance were considered [30]: 1000 -67.45 -74.54 7.09 1.62
• if ∆ > s, the level of significance is low ( );
As it can be seen in the table several harmonic
• if ∆ > 2s it is medium ( ); components indicate clearly the damaged bearing of the
• if ∆ > 5s it is high ( ). induction machine in study.
If these conditions are not fulfilled an incipient bearing
failure is impossible to be detected by means of this method. TABLE II
RESULTS FOR DAMAGED BEARING SEAL CONDITION
The proposed bearing faults detection method based on AT THE RATED LOAD OBTAINED BY MEANS OF MEASURING
statistical computations hopefully is really applicable in THE RADIAL FLUX ON THE END-WINDING
industrial environment as a truly accurate and robust fault
∆>2s
∆>5s
[Hz]
[dB]
[dB]
indicator.
∆>s
mh
mf
∆ s
f
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TABLE III The detection method based on measuring the radial flux
RESULTS FOR DAMAGED BEARING SEAL CONDITION
AT THE RATED LOAD OBTAINED BY MEANS OF MEASURING
body flux at the end windings can be also used to detect
THE AXIAL BODY FLUX outer bearing faults, as a crack in the outer race (see
Table IV).
∆>2s
∆>5s
[dB]
[dB]
∆>s
mh
mf
s
[Hz]
∆
VI. CONCLUSIONS
f
100 -45.12 -49.86 4.75 1.96 Bearing faults are one of the most frequent defects of
150 -25.24 -24.81 -0.42 1.69 induction machines. Therefore the detection of such faults
200 -57.03 -58.42 1.39 2.38 already in their incipient phase is quite important in the
250 -16.48 -18.74 2.26 1.97 industrial environment.
300 -74.77 -72.39 -2.38 2.11 In the paper a noninvasive bearing fault detection
350 -33.21 -37.68 4.47 1.69
methodology is presented, which involves simple
400 -63.85 -73.85 9.99 2.80
measurements of the stray flux around the machine by means
450 -58.47 -64.03 5.56 2.06
of different flux probes in different positions. It was proven
500 -65.91 -74.80 8.90 2.26
that by applying the method three basic bearing faults types
550 -44.08 -55.76 11.68 2.12
can be detected by simple measurements and computations.
600 -69.87 -79.11 9.23 1.41
650 -56.01 -63.51 7.49 2.06
The most effective detection was performed by measuring
700 -68.46 -79.50 11.04 3.30
the radial stray flux of the induction machine's end-winding
750 -58.28 -67.99 9.71 2.95 by using the hand-made flux probe. Insignificant results were
800 -75.36 -77.74 2.39 2.08 obtained by measuring the axial stray flux of the machine via
850 -53.45 -68.27 14.81 3.59 the Emerson flux probe.
900 -70.38 -80.68 10.30 3.26 Also the stator currents were measured and processed in
950 -66.19 -79.17 12.98 3.99 the frame of the study [30]. However the diagnostic content
1000 -72.97 -78.65 5.68 2.08 given by this parameter was less significant with respect to
the information given by the stray flux, therefore they were
Upon the results given in Table III it can be stated that not detailed in the paper.
also the axial body flux signals of the induction machine can The tests performed at different loads have shown
be used in fault detection, in a similar way as the radial flux noteworthy similarities, which means that the developed fault
on the end-windings. detection method can be a useful tool regardless of the tested
machine loading.
TABLE IV
RESULTS FOR DAMAGED OUTER BEARING RACE CONDITION The fault detection method detailed in the paper seems to
AT THE RATED LOAD OBTAINED BY MEANS OF MEASURING be quite effective. Moreover, the applied hand-made
THE RADIAL BODY FLUX
magnetic flux probe used to measure the stray flux round the
induction machine is very simple and cheap, as compared
∆>2s
∆>5s
[Hz]
[dB]
[dB]
∆>s
mh
mf
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