Fnginering Failure Analysis 107 (2020) 104208 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect, Engineering Failure Analysis ELSEVIER journal homepage: www.slsevier.comilocatelengfailanal Extraction of weak fault transients using variational mode ® decomposition for fault diagnosis of gearbox under varying speed ‘Vikas Sharma”’, Anand Parey” ‘nmi of Mechanical nd Aaa ging Soa Noten Unter, Sl OB, pb of Kor * Dine of Merial ering nan ste of Teco Ia. eda ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT onwrte Nonstationary vibration signals ofa gearbox under varying speed dsplay completed mod Fale dingo sation, hich ead to intense sideband thereby reskin in iil to deny the presence of detsatn ‘nae Vasco mode evomponton (VD) beng highly apie, eet in tenting Mate spa Inodeiig poblen, ow computational tine requlrenen’ and theoreti stale to — Compan 4 nobel nliccnponentenreonay aera wieaton vga. Thi rstrch orying spt ‘work thus utilizes the merits of VMD for demodulation and to diagnose localized gear tooth Fults Snder rete reed vrai. In the resent sy, the ration iano gear for Arent outs were acguled under compete speed vation (he, aap random Mutton, feel ceticown. To ieely the syptons contig tbe pene of lt the wean ‘male wore decompon by VM tery demodlting the ne bron sil The doom VAs exited the resec fret ols nd were sly ely 0 atthe effetvencsr f VID in exh al by extracting fatale, the prone SC VAD as compated wih the performace of rc developed wavelet asl ep ‘eavelet aor (EWT) ad flee arate wavelet wanform (PAW). The fut detection ‘eormane of Vi tiers WT as eons by silted sgl on aise y the ‘perimental Investigations. FAWT was ound Iefete In decomposing the ibaton inal wer varying sped 1. Introduction Gearboxes are crucial machine assemblies of wind turbines, employed to transmit torque thereby assisting in renewable power ‘generation. In wind turbines, gearboxes are bound to operate under varying speed due to the changing wind direction and non- ‘constant velocity [5] as shown in ig. 1. Varying speed makes a gearbox prone to failure even before the designed life ofa gearbox. ‘Therefore it becomes highly necessary to monitor the health of a gearbox and thereby detecting the occurrence of any possible failure. vibration-based health-monitoring mechanisms are important elements of a health monitoring system and have proved their ffetiveness in early fault diagnosis (6). For more than two and s half decades, a huge amount of research on various vibration based fault diagnosis approaches has been reported inclusive of dynamic modeling based simulations and signal processing based ex perimental analysis under constant and varying operating conditions (6-11) Vibration signals of a gearbox are influenced by friction, time-varying mesh stiffness, tooth profile uncertainties and! non sta tionary operating conditions (11, The weak fault transients generated by the meshing of incipient fault present in a tooth of gear is ‘Corresponding author. mall adaves koi gmail com (V. Sharma). hups://do.org/10.1016/engflianal2019.104204 Received 13 Jane 2019; Reccived in revised form 30 ly 2019; Accepted 22 September 2019, ‘Available online 22 October 2019 13506907/ © 2019 Eleevier Lid All ights reserved