Morphological covering based generalized dimension for gear fault diagnosis

This investigation presents a new generalized dimension estimation method based on morphological covering (MC) technique for characterizing the nonlinearity and complexity of vibration signals measured from gearbox. A synthetic fractal signal is employed to evaluate and compare the proposed MC technique with the traditional box-counting (BC) method and a similar approach developed in literature. Results revealed that the presented MC method is the one providing the most reliable generalized dimension estimation results. Furthermore, we applied this scheme to analyze the vibration signals from a gearbox with three operation states. The estimated general dimensions are used as the input feature vector for classifiers to the gear working states. Experimental results showed that our presented scheme achieves the best performance on discriminating the gear conditions. We also explore the calculational efficiency of the MC method. Results demonstrated that the MC method requires much less computational cost than BC method and seems to be more suitable for on-line condition monitoring of gearboxes.     

Simulating the dynamic behavior of planetary gearbox based on improved Hanning function

Planetary gearboxes are widely used in industrial machines. They usually work in harsh environments giving rise to damages and high maintenance costs. Condition monitoring is a key action allowing one to detect the presence of such damage ensuring healthy running conditions. The knowledge of the dynamic behavior of such a gearbox can be achieved using modeling tools as a primary step before conditioning the monitoring subject. In addition, modeling a gear set can help in the stage of design in order to optimize physical and geometric parameters of the system. Therefore, in this work, a two-dimensional lumped parameter model is adopted to build all vibration sources. The time-varying mesh stiffness is approximated as a square wave form. A novel mathematical formulation is proposed to model the amplitude modulation phenomenon due to the rotational motion of the planets around the center of the gearbox. Finally, the overall vibration signal is concluded as a summation of all vibration components influenced by the modulation function.     

Gear fault diagnosis under non-stationary operating mode based on EMD,TKEO, and Shock Detector

Condition monitoring of gearboxes running under non-stationary operating conditions is a very difficult task. In this study, a signal processing technique is developed for damage detection of a bevel gearbox running under variable load and speed conditions. The proposed technique is applied on simulated vibration data computed through a dynamic model of bevel gearbox. The procedure used in this technique is based on the extraction of the shock related to the defect using the Shock Detector (SD) method. Firstly, vibration signals are decomposed into IMFs using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD). Then, the Teager–Kaiser Energy Operator (TKEO) is used to assess the instantaneous energy of the signal. Afterwards, SD is applied to examine and quantify the shock contents of the TKEO signal, which reflect the effect of the defect.     

Identification of modal parameters for nonstationary mechanical systems

This paper presents two different approaches to the identification of modal model parameters for nonstationary mechanical systems. The problem is related to model-based structural health monitoring. Damage in this approach is detected by tracking modal parameters of the structure during operation. The detected parameter changes can be indicators of structural damage. The recursive method based on the autoregressive moving-average model of signals and wavelet-transform-based algorithms are presented. The methods are tested using simulated data. Case studies of airplane flutter detection are shown using both methods.     

Dynamic response of shallow buried structures associated with landmine clearing operations

The development of mechanical means of landmine clearing using flail machines requires a good knowledge of load transfer and tool-soil-landmine interaction. Recent research have provided a good understanding of the soil-tool interaction, but load transfer and responses of buried landmines due to loading from the flails remains undefined. Buried landmines act as unsupported buried structures and loads from the flailing motion are considered as impact loading on the soil surface. A 4 degree-of-freedom mechanical model is constructed and corresponding experiments are conducted to better understand the load transfer and dynamic responses of buried structures due to surface impact loading. The model and experiment is limited to a single impact load directly above the structure, and the buried structure is assumed to move only in the vertical direction. Experiments are conducted for various load magnitude and depth of burial for buried structure in two types of soil. The minimum surface impact forces needed to trigger a landmine in prescribed conditions for two different types of soils have been found. This information could be useful in the design optimization of a mine flail. A correction factor to account for nonlinearity in the form of the ratio of Burgers model and Kelvin stiffness and damping constants is introduced. Considering an appropriate correction factor, the response behavior of the model compares well with the experimental results. The model, while simple, is deemed adequate to represent and predict the behavior of a buried landmine in a mine clearing condition - or any other unsupported buried structure - in soil and sand medium subjected to surface impact loads.     

Non-smooth predictive control for mechanical transmission systems with backlash-like hysteresis

This paper proposes a non-smooth predictive control approach for mechanical transmission systems described by dynamic models with preceded backlash-like hysteresis. In this type of system, the work platform is driven by a DC motor through a gearbox. The work platform is represented by a linear dynamic sub-model connected in series with a backlash-like hysteresis inherent in gearbox. Here, backlash-like hysteresis is modeled as a non-smooth function with multi-valued mapping. In this case, the conventional model predictive control for such system cannot be implemented directly since the gradients of the control objective function with respect to control variables do not exist at non-smooth points. In order to solve this problem, a non-smooth receding horizon strategy is proposed. Moreover, the stability of predictive control of such non-smooth dynamic systems is analyzed. Finally, a numerical example and a simulation study on a mechanical transmission system are presented for validating the proposed method.     

Towards understanding the critical heat flux for industrial applications

Understanding CHF is of an upmost importance in many industries, especially in the design and operation of boilers, nuclear power plants, cryogenic systems, etc. Due to safety issues related to the nuclear power plants, and the adaptation of CHF as the limiting criterion of power generation, it is important to understand the mechanisms of CHF relevant to nuclear systems operation. Moreover, CHF is expected to occur during transients than steady-state conditions. Therefore, knowledge of transient CHF is of great importance for the safety evaluation of nuclear reactors under transient condition. In this paper, the existing CHF experimental and modeling studies are discussed in order to understand the phenomena leading to CHF. Also, the effect of transient conditions on CHF for nuclear fuels has been evaluated.     

Ideal Turbulence

Ideal turbulence is a mathematical phenomenon which occurs in certain infinite-dimensional deterministic dynamical systems and implies that the attractor of a system lies off the phase space and among the attractor points there are fractal or even random functions. A mathematically rigorous definition of ideal turbulence is based on standard notions of dynamical systems theory and chaos theory. Ideal turbulence is observed in various idealized models of real distributed systems of electrodynamics, acoustics, radiophysics, etc. In systems without internal resistance, cascade processes are capable to birth structures of arbitrarily small scale and even to cause stochastization of the systems. Just these phenomena are inherent in ideal turbulence and they help to understand the mathematical scenarios for many features of real turbulence.     

爆破地震地面运动的演变功率谱密度函数分析

按照Priestly提出的演变随机过程理论，对非平稳随机过程的演变功率谱密度函数进行了理论推导，并给出了定义。在此基础上，建立了基于均匀调制随机过程的爆破地震动演变功率谱密度函数。经对比发现，理论模型计算值与实验测试结果具有较好的一致性。     

Dynamics of spatial structure-varying rigid multibody systems

Summary Couplings in machines and mechanisms exhibiting backlash and friction phenomena can be modeled as multibody systems with unilateral constraints and Coulomb friction. The structure of the differential-algebraic equations describing the system depends on the state of the constraints. The contact forces occurring at active constraints are taken into account in the equations of motion as Lagrange multipliers. Additionally, the kinematic conditions of all active constraints are formulated on the acceleration level. Contact and friction laws are sufficient conditions for state transitions of active constraints, and are represented by nonsmooth characteristics. Several formulations, like the linear complementarity problem, and two different nonlinear systems of equations are presented together with their solution method. The theory is applied to a mechanical system containing three-dimensional and coupled unilateral constraints with friction. Received 14 May 1998; accepted for publication 5 January 1999     

Augmented perpetual manifolds and perpetual mechanical systems-part II: theorem for dissipative mechanical systems behaving as perpetual machines of third kind

Perpetual points in mathematics defined recently, and their significance in nonlinear dynamics and their application in mechanical systems is currently ongoing research. The perpetual points significance relevant to mechanics so far is that they form the perpetual manifolds of rigid body motions of unforced mechanical systems, which lead to the definition of perpetual mechanical systems. The perpetual mechanical systems admit as perpetual points rigid body motions which are forming the perpetual manifolds. The concept of perpetual manifolds extended to the definition of augmented perpetual manifolds that an externally excited multi-degree of freedom mechanical system is moving as a rigid body, and may exhibit particle-wave motion. This article is complementary to the work done so far applied to natural perpetual dissipative mechanical systems with motion defined by the exact augmented perpetual manifolds, whereas the internal forces, and individual energies are examined, to understand further the mechanics of these systems while their motion is in the exact augmented perpetual manifolds. A theorem is proved stating that under conditions when the motion of a perpetual natural dissipative mechanical system is in the exact augmented perpetual manifolds, all the internal forces are zero, which is rather significant in the mechanics of these systems since the operation on augmented perpetual manifolds leads to zero internal degradation. Moreover, the theorem is stating that the potential energy is constant, and there is no dissipation of energy, therefore the process is internally isentropic, and there is no energy loss within the perpetual mechanical system. Also in this theorem is proved that the external work done is equal to the changes of the kinetic energy, therefore the motion in the exact augmented perpetual manifolds is driven only by the changes of the kinetic energy. This is also a significant outcome to understand the mechanics of perpetual mechanical systems while it is in particle-wave motion which is guided by kinetic energy changes. In the final statement of the theorem is stated and proved that the perpetual dissipative mechanical system can behave as a perpetual machine of third kind which is rather significant in mechanical engineering. Noting that the perpetual mechanical system apart of the augmented perpetual manifolds solutions is having other solutions too, e.g., in higher normal modes and in these solutions the theorem is not valid. The developed theory is applied in the only two possible configurations that a mechanical system can have. The first configuration is a perpetual mechanical system without any connection through structural elements with the environment. In the second configuration, the perpetual mechanical system is a subsystem, connected with structural elements with the environment. In both examples, the motion in the exact augmented perpetual manifolds is examined with the view of mechanics defined by the theorem, resulting in excellent agreement between theory and numerical simulations. The outcome of this article is significant in physics to understand the mechanics of the motion of perpetual mechanical systems in the exact augmented perpetual manifolds, which is described through the kinetic energy changes and this gives further insight into the mechanics of particle-wave motions. Also, in mechanical engineering the outcome of this article is significant, because it is shown that the motion of the perpetual mechanical systems in the exact augmented perpetual manifolds is the ultimate, in the sense that there are no internal forces which lead to degradation of the internal structural elements, and there is no energy loss due to dissipation.

     

Bifurcations in the response of a rigid rotor supported by load sharing between magnetic and auxiliary bearings

Auxiliary bearings are utilized in practical installations of magnetically suspended rotating machines with the main functions to provide support to the rotating machines during their non-operational period, and to protect the magnetic bearings and the rotating assembly from being damaged due to power loss during operation. The relatively small clearances of these bearings, which are typically half of that of the magnetic bearings, may at time cause contact between the rotor and these bearings to occur even during normal operation of the rotating machines. The work presented herein examines the bifurcations in the response of a rigid rotor supported by load sharing between magnetic and auxiliary bearings, which occurs during contact between the rotor and the auxiliary bearings. Numerical results revealed the occurrence of period-doubling bifurcation resulting in vibrations of period-2, -4, -8, -16 and -32, as well as quasi-periodic and chaotic vibrations. The results further showed that for a relatively small rotor imbalance magnitude, which is within the prescribed level of certain classes of practical rotating machinery, such nonlinear dynamical phenomena would not have been discovered had the auxiliary bearings forces been omitted in the model of the rotor-bearing system. As these bearings are essential elements in practical installations of magnetically supported rotating machines, failure to include them in the rotor-bearing model may result in incorrect prediction of the rotor’s vibration response.     

Comparative study of two lattice Boltzmann multiphase models for simulating wetting phenomena: implementing static contact angles based on the geometric formulation

Wetting phenomena are widespread in nature and industrial applications. In general, systems concerning wetting phenomena are typical multicomponent/multiphase complex fluid systems. Simulating the behavior of such systems is important to both scientific research and practical applications. It is challenging due to the complexity of the phenomena and difficulties in choosing an appropriate numerical method. To provide some detailed guidelines for selecting a suitable multiphase lattice Boltzmann model, two kinds of lattice Boltzmann multiphase models, the modified S-C model and the H-C-Z model, are used in this paper to investigate the static contact angle on solid surfaces with different wettability combined with the geometric formulation (Ding, H. and Spelt, P. D. M. Wetting condition in diffuse interface simulations of contact line motion. Physical Review E, 75(4), 046708 (2007)). The specific characteristics and computational performance of these two lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) multiphase models are analyzed including relationship between surface tension and the control parameters, the achievable range of the static contact angle, the maximum magnitude of the spurious currents (MMSC), and most importantly, the convergence rate of the two models on simulating the static contact angle. The results show that a wide range of static contact angles from wetting to non-wetting can be realized for both models. MMSC mainly depends on the surface tension. With the numerical parameters used in this work, the maximum magnitudes of the spurious currents of the two models are on the same order of magnitude. MMSC of the S-C model is universally larger than that of the H-C-Z model. The convergence rate of the S-C model is much faster than that of the H-C-Z model. The major foci in this work are the frequently-omitted important details in simulating wetting phenomena. Thus, the major findings in this work can provide suggestions for simulating wetting phenomena with LBM multiphase models along with the geometric formulation.     

Nonlinear dynamics of two harmonic oscillators coupled by Rayleigh type self-exciting force

The present paper reports some interesting phenomena observed in the nonlinear dynamics of two self-excitedly coupled harmonic oscillators. The system under consideration consists of two mechanical oscillators coupled by the Rayleigh type self-exciting force. Both autonomous and nonautonomous cases for weakly coupled systems are analyzed. When the natural frequencies of the two oscillators are close to each other, only one mode of oscillation exists. As two modes of oscillations get locked to a single mode, the system is said to be in a mode-locked condition. Under a mode-locked condition, the oscillators can oscillate with only a single frequency. However, when two oscillators are sufficiently detuned, the mode-locking condition does not persist and two distinct modes of oscillations emerge. Under these circumstances, particularly when detuning is large, one of the oscillators, depending on the initial conditions, oscillates with much larger amplitude as compared to the other oscillator, and hence mode localization is observed. When one of the oscillators is subject to a harmonic excitation, at two different frequencies, termed here as the decoupling frequencies, the coupling between the oscillators is almost lost, resulting in almost zero response of the unexcited oscillator. Analytical and numerical results are presented to analyze the above mentioned phenomena. Some potential applications of the aforesaid phenomena are also discussed.     

Large displacement analysis of elastic pyramidal trusses

The paper examines the equilibrium stability problem for a simple class of elastic space trusses in the shape of a regular pyramid. Joints located at the vertices of the base polygon are fixed while the joint at the apex is subjected to a proportionally increasing load acting in either the vertical direction, in the horizontal plane, or along a generic oblique direction. Exact closed-form solutions are derived for each load condition under the common hypotheses of linear material law, small or moderate axial deformation in bars and large nodal displacements. Despite their seeming simplicity, these mechanical systems exhibit a wide variety of post-critical responses, not exhausted by the classical snapping and bifurcation phenomena. In addition to regular primary and secondary branches, the equilibrium paths may include neutral branches, namely branches entirely composed of bifurcation or limit points. Besides their immediate theoretical interest, these branches are particularly difficult to handle by the standard numerical procedures of non-linear analysis, so the given solutions may represent severe benchmark tests.     

昆虫飞行参数测量实验研究进展

在昆虫飞行的实验研究中,可采用活体实验、模型实验和活体模型结合三种方法。活体实验可以客观反映自然界中昆虫的飞行规律,获得真实的实验数据,但可重复性差。模型实验作为机械装置可以重复进行试验,详细描述流场结构并定量各种参数大小,但与真实飞行存在一定差距。单独使用这两种中的任一方法均可对一些现象给出了解释。二者相结合的方法更易于准确描述昆虫的运动特征,通过对比模型与活体的结果来提出机理,尽管需要的实验周期较长,但结论往往更接近真实状态,基于该方法科学家们已提出了几种飞行机理。本文结合近几年文献报道,综述了昆虫飞行参数测量方法,并对以上几种方法在研究昆虫飞行机理中的作用进行了对比分析,认为模型和活体结合的研究方法更容易为一些飞行现象提出合理解释。     

高速列车轴承可靠性评估关键力学参量研究进展

轴承是高速列车牵引传动和轮轴系统的关键零部件. 受列车运行过程中电机转矩、齿轮啮合以及轮轨随机激励的影响,轴承可能发生疲劳破坏, 严重影响高速列车的行车安全.我国特有的复杂运用条件对轴承部件的疲劳性能提出了更高的要求,而轴承疲劳可靠性的基础理论和关键技术是我国轴承正向设计研发中的薄弱环节.可靠性评估方面的相关研究在解决轴承可靠性研究的瓶颈问题中起到了承上启下的关键作用.高速列车轴承可靠性评估手段与技术旨在获得使用环境中轴承可靠性评估的关键力学参量,并以此推动复杂激励下轴承疲劳可靠性理论研究. 因此,需要哪些关键力学参量并且在复杂的实际使用环境下如何去获取这些力学参量是进行高速列车轴承可靠性评估的关键所在.本文首先概述了高速列车轴承所处的复杂使用环境及运用中的主要失效模式,并据此分析了高速列车轴承可靠性评估所需的关键力学参量,强调了轴承内部滚滑行为和载荷分布在可靠性评估和轴承状态监测中的重要作用,之后从计算模型和测试技术等方面系统阐述了针对这两个关键力学参量的研究进展.最后提出了在高速列车轴承可靠性评估关键力学参量特征及测试技术研究中值得关注的若干问题.      

Detecting nonlinearity from a continuous dynamic system based on the delay vector variance method and its application to gear fault identification

Many natural time series and signals collected from engineered systems are continuous dynamical signals. In practice, it is necessary to study nonlinearities in such continuous dynamic systems under different sampling conditions. In this paper, nonlinearity tests based on the delay vector variance (DVV) and iterative amplitude adjusted Fourier transform (IAAFT) based surrogates are first applied to Lorenz time series under various sampling rates. Traditional nonlinearity measures, such as third-order autocovariance and asymmetry due to time reversal, are shown to be sensitive to different sampling conditions whereas the relative insensitivity of the DVV proves promising. This insensitivity makes DVV a desirable nonlinearity measure for describing continuous dynamic signals and herein it is shown to be a suitable nonlinear fault diagnostic method for use in the gearbox condition monitoring. Moreover, by applying the DVV rank test, faults in gears can be identified effectively.     

Influence of the boundary conditions on the stress state of a flexible cylindrical shell of variable stiffness in a magnetic field

The effect of the boundary conditions on the stress state of a circular cylindrical shell of variable thickness (stiffness) is analyzed using a geometrically nonlinear problem statement. The cylindrical shell is subject to a magnetic field, external electric current, and nonstationary mechanical load. Numerical results are presented and analyzed     

机械系统中摩擦模型的研究进展

摩擦现象在机械系统中的作用日益突出, 合理地解决机械系统中摩擦环节尤其是非线性摩擦环节的制约问题 已成为当前研究的重点. 由于摩擦的复杂性, 很难从机理上获得其准确唯一的数学模型, 迄今已提出的摩擦模 型有数十种. 鉴于目前机械系统中摩擦建模的发展状况, 首先描述了几种重要的摩擦现象, 如库仑摩擦、黏性 摩擦、Stribeck效应、预滑动摩擦、可变的静态摩擦力和摩擦记忆效应等. 其次, 系统地介绍了几种较为重要的、 常用的摩擦模型, 包括6种静态摩擦模型和7种动态摩擦模型, 并对每一种模型的构成, 特点和适用范围等 进行了较为详细地论述. 比较而言, 静态摩擦模型结构简单, 参数辨识容易, 但是无法描述摩擦的动态特性, 动态摩擦模型能够比较全面的描述摩擦现象, 但结构复杂, 参数辨识难度较大. 再次, 简要概述了摩擦建模 对机械系统动力学行为的影响, 以及在高精度定位系统的控制中的作用. 最后, 针对当前机械系统中摩擦建 模方面存在的一些不足提出了几点展望. 为今后摩擦模型的选用和新摩擦模型的建立提供了参考.