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Applications of Time-Frequency Analysis Techniques on Machinery Fault Diagnosis

Lin Liu, Zhuang Li & Suri Ganeriwala Spectra Quest, Inc. 8227 Hermitage Road, Richmond, VA 23228 USA Ph: (804)261-3300 Fax: (804)261-3303 August 2006

ABSTRACT Spectra Quest, Inc. is planning to publish a series of tech notes on the applications of advanced signal processing techniques on machinery fault diagnosis. We start this series with timefrequency analysis techniques in this tech note. Generally speaking the sound and vibration signals obtained from a rotating machine are time-variant since they are strongly related to the rotational speed which is not constant even in the macro steady state. Since the mostly used signal processing method, the Fourier analysis, is only suitable for stationary signals, the development of the joint time-frequency analysis is demanded. Both the linear and quadratic time-frequency analysis approaches have been introduced. The performances of these algorithms were compared. Several tips were then summarized for you to pick an appropriate method for your application. Several successful applications of the time-frequency analysis methods on the machinery fault diagnosis were presented in detail. 1. INTRODUCTION For scientists and engineers, a system under study is usually considered as a black-box. In general cases people only can obtain useful information by analyzing the measured signals acquired from the system. Therefore, the signal processing techniques are helpful and indispensable tools for us to extract useful information and features associated with the system. The last several decades have seen many innovative signal processing approaches developed, and some of them have already found successful applications in machinery fault diagnostics. Wavelet transform, short-time Fourier transform, Gabor expansion, Wigner-Ville distribution (WVD), cepstrum, bispectrum, correlation method, high-resolution spectral analysis, statistical analysis, etc. are all hot topics nowadays. How to select an appropriate method for a particular problem is then an interesting question. Spectra Quest, Inc. is planning to publish a series of tech notes on the applications of advanced signal processing techniques on machinery fault diagnosis. For the purpose of simplicity, we will try to avoid presenting theories behind these techniques. These tech notes are going to focus on the industrial applications with plenty of examples. Advantages, disadvantages, and suitable applications will be discussed for each technique. The performance of some related techniques will be further compared. We start this series with the time-frequency analysis techniques in this tech note. Although the wavelet analysis is sometime regarded as one of the time-frequency analysis methods, we will discuss the wavelet analysis in another tech note due to its individual features. The rotational

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speed of a rotating machine, often known as RPM, is not a constant, especially during the startup and the shutdown stages. Even though the machine is running in a steady state, the rotational speed varies indeed around a steady-state mean value, while such a variation depends on the load and other factors. Since the sound and vibration signals obtained from a rotating machine are strongly related to its rotational speed, they are time variant signals in nature. The time-variant features carry the machine fault signatures. Consequently, how to extract the features and interpret the signals will be very important in both the theoretical research and industrial applications. The FFT, of course, is the most commonly used signal analysis method. The Fourier transform and its inverse counterpart offer two perspectives to study a signal: in either the time domain or the frequency domain. The FFT-based spectrum of a time signal tells us the existence of its frequency contents. By studying these frequency contents and their magnitude (sometimes as well as phase) relations, one can obtain a lot of information, such as harmonics, sidebands, beating frequency, bearing fault frequency, and so on. However, a restriction of the FFT is the Fourier transform assumes the time signal in study is stationary. In another word, the FFT is only suitable for signals whose frequency contents do not change over time. Unfortunately, as mentioned above, the frequency contents of the sound and vibration signals obtained from a rotating machine are often time-dependent. As a result, the FFT-based spectrum is not able to depict how the frequency contents develop over time. More specifically, if the running speed of a machine is increasing or decreasing, as in the startup or shutdown period, its bandwidth in the FFT-based spectrum becomes much wider than what it is suppose to be. In such a case, the harmonics are not distinguishable in the spectrum. Next we will show a typical engine startup and shutdown test to see how this happens. Figure 1 illustrates the time waveform (a), power spectrum (b), and the Gabor spectrogram (c) of a signal obtained from a proximity probe mounted on a fluid bearing housing of Spectra Quests Machine Fault Simulator Lite ExtendedTM. Notice that the abscissa and ordinate of the spectrogram share the same time-axis of (a) and frequency axis of (b), and colors represent magnitudes of the time-frequency distribution. In this particular spectrogram the magnitudes are in dB. The MFS Lite Extended is an innovative test rig specially designed to study the dynamic behavior of rotors supported by fluid film journal bearings. Two proximity probes are mounted on each journal bearing housing to measure the relative displacements of the shaft with respect to the bearing housing. For the test shown in Fig. 1, no disk was mounted on the shaft. Please refer to another tech note for detailed description of the experimental setup and observations [1]. The engine was accelerating to 125 Hz (7500 RPM) in about 7 seconds, and remaining at the steady state for about 12 seconds, then coasting down in 8 seconds. Lets look closer at the power spectrum. As mentioned earlier, a FFT-based spectrum shows the existence of all the frequency contents. Since the fundamental frequency (or referred to as 1X) is increasing linearly from 0 to 125 Hz, the signal contains frequency contents in this frequency range. Therefore, the bandwidth of 1X becomes 125 Hz in the power spectrum. From the spectrogram it can be seen that the real bandwidth should not be greater than 10 Hz. In fact, as the 1X bandwidth widens, the bandwidth of related harmonics will also become wider. Consequently, different harmonics will overlap in

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the frequency domain if we only look at the power spectrum. In addition, although the power spectrum shows a peak at 50 Hz which represents oil whip, the power spectrum cannot tell us how this phenomenon developed.

3X

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bandwidth

bandwidth 1X oil whip 3

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resonance Figure 1. Time waveform (a), power spectrum (b), and spectrogram (c) of a signal obtained from a proximity probe mounted on a fluid bearing housing of Spectra Quests MFS Lite ExtendedTM.

Fortunately, the spectrogram can distinguish the 1X component and its harmonics, as well as oil whirl, oil whip, sidebands, and other components. It clearly depicts how the frequency contents change over time. That is to say, the time-frequency analysis offers more information hidden in the FFT analysis.

2. TIME-FREQUENCY APPROACHES The time-frequency approaches fall into two categories: linear methods and quadratic methods. The difference between linear and quadratic methods is that the linear transform can be inverted

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to reconstruct the time signal. Thus, the linear transform is suitable for signal processing, such as noise reduction and time-varying filtering. On the other hand, the quadratic methods describe the energy distribution of a signal in the joint time-frequency domain, which is useful to analyze, classify, and detect features of the signal. Since the phase information is lost in the quadratic time-frequency representation, the time histories cannot be reconstructed. In the linear time-frequency analysis methods, the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) and the Gabor transform, are two algorithms. If we consider the linear time-frequency analysis as the evolution of the conventional Fourier transform, the quadratic time-frequency analysis is the counterpart of the power spectrum. Quadratic algorithms include the Gabor spectrogram, Cohens Class and the adaptive spectrogram. From Fig.1 it can be seen that a major advantage of the time-frequency analysis is discovering the patterns of frequency changes, which usually represent the nature of the signal. As long as such a pattern can be identified, the machinery fault associated with this pattern can thus be detected. Another important use of the time-frequency analysis is the ability to filter out a particular frequency component using a time-varying filter. As shown before, the widened bandwidth leads to serious frequency content overlap in the spectrum. Therefore the conventional filters can not separate these overlapped contents, because all the conventional filters have fixed bandwidth which cannot track the frequency changes. We will demonstrate how to use the time-varying filters in a later section of this tech note. 2.1 Linear Methods and Time-Varying Filter The FFT-based spectrum, for example, Fig. 1(b), represents the frequency contents in the entire time waveform, whenever they happen in time. An intuitive idea to improve this behavior is to truncate the time waveform into successive segments and then apply the FFT to each segment. When you align all the resultant FFTs, these 2-dimensional FFT spectra construct a 3dimensional transform. Then you can roughly see how the frequency contents evolve with time. This procedure is actually the basic idea of the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), because the FFT is applied to short-time segments. The STFT is the most straightforward approach in the time-frequency analysis. The great advantage is its fast computation, simply because it involved the FFT. Like the conventional FFT, the STFT also keeps the phase information. In the general case, however, the STFT is not invertible to reconstruct the time waveform. This is because the time waveform and the 3D STFT coefficients are normally not one-to-one mapped. Special care must be taken to find few cases in which the mapping is one-to-one. The discrete Gabor transform, which is one of the special cases of the STFT, is invertible. After you calculate the Gabor transform, you can separate any time-frequency component you are interested in, and perform the inverse Gabor transform to reconstruct its corresponding time signal. Such a procedure is called time-varying filter. Time-varying filter helps you eliminate the interference of other components and perform in-depth analysis on the reconstructed time signal with great flexibility. Although the inverse Gabor transform involves more mathematical considerations, you really do not need to worry about them. Spectra Quests Transient Analysis Module simplifies these operations by using three steps:

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1) compute the Gabor transform and present the 3D time-frequency plot; 2) mask the time-frequency component you want to reconstruct on the 3D plot; 3) perform the inverse Gabor transform to obtain the time waveform corresponding to the masked time-frequency component

Steps 1) and 3) are automatically done. What you only need to do is to decide which component you want to reconstruct and separate it using some kind of mask. In step 2), the Transient Analysis Module provides three convenient methods for you to mask the time-frequency component: threshold, morphologic and arbitrary masks. With several simple mouse clicks, you can easily mask the component. For example, one may think: The oil whirl and oil whip are quite interesting. Can we get rid of all the other frequency components and only reconstruct the oil whirl-whip signal? The answer is YES, although it is impossible using the traditional filters. Figure 2 shows the masked oil whirl-whip component on the 3D time-frequency plot, and the comparison of the original and reconstructed time waveforms. In the bottom plot it can be clearly seen oil whip is the major source of the high vibration period from 7.5 to 20 second. Since the oil whip component has been separated from other components, you can quantify oil whips contribution to the machine vibration, predict the damage it may cause and perform other indepth analysis.

Figure 2. Use time-varying filter to reconstruct the oil whirl-whip component.

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So far we have discussed two linear time-frequency transform methods. The next question one may ask is: Can I get high time-frequency resolution in the 3D plot? Resolution is a common consideration when we conduct signal processing. For the traditional FFT analysis, people always expect high spectral resolution which means great number of frequency lines. Unfortunately, for either the STFT or the Gabor transform, you cannot get high time-resolution and high frequency-resolution simultaneously in the 3D plot. When you have high resolution in one dimension (time or frequency), the resolution of the other dimension must be coarse accordingly. Or you need to compromise the two resolutions. As introduced before, in order to obtain the 3D time-frequency representation, the time waveform must be truncated into segments. The resolutions depend on how you truncate the signal. This involves two considerations. One is the choice of window. You may use Hanning window or flat-top window in the FFT-based analysis. In the time-frequency analysis you encounter the same window selection. The answer is simple: the Gaussian window has the optimal time-frequency resolution. The second issue is the segment length. Short segments result in a fine time-resolution but a coarse frequency-resolution. Similarly, long segments result in a fine frequency-resolution but a coarse time-resolution. Please notice that all the segments must have the same length. The best segment length depends on the characteristics of the signal. If the spectral contents of the signal evolve over time slowly, which does not require a fine time-resolution, set the segment length large. If the spectral contents change relatively quickly, which requires a fine time resolution, set the segment length small. Transient Analysis Module allows you easily set the segment length. 2.2 Quadratic Methods Just as the square of the FFT is power spectrum, the square of the STFT and the Gabor transform coefficients gives the STFT and the Gabor spectrograms. Therefore the spectrograms are considered as the quadratic time-frequency analysis. Besides these two spectrograms, Spectra Quests Transient Analysis Module also provides Wigner-Ville distribution as another quadratic time-frequency analysis algorithm. We will compare these algorithms in this section. You also can try them out and pick the most suitable method for your signals. The STFT spectrogram is the normalized, squared magnitude of the linear STFT. As mentioned in the last section, the resolution of the STFT depends on the segment length. Although other quadratic methods may provide superior resolution, the STFT spectrogram can be a good first try because this method is fast and simple, especially if your signal is long and requires a lot of computation effort. By looking at the STFT spectrogram you can quickly identify how the frequency components evolve over time and where the energy is concentrated in the 3D plot. Figure 3 shows the STFT spectrogram of the same time signal shown in Fig. 1(a). The segment length is 1024 data samples. Comparing Fig. 3 with Fig. 1 (c), it can be seen that although the STFT spectrogram has coarse resolution, it discovers the trend of the frequency changes and all the major components.

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Figure 3. STFT spectrogram of the same oil whirl-whip signal.

second natural frequency of the bending vibration of the shaft, 188 Hz

fundamental frequency of the bending vibration of the shaft, 52 Hz

Figure 4. Reassigned STFT. The Transient Analysis Module also allows you to use the reassigned method to improve the time-frequency resolution of the STFT spectrogram by simply selecting a check box. The 7

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reassigned method automatically makes the components more concentrated. However, you should notice that the reassignment method also may bias the location of spectral peaks, merge distinct spectral components, falsely split compact signal components, or excessively sharpen naturally blurry signal components in the resulting time-frequency representation. The timefrequency resolution in Fig. 4 is much more improved compared to Fig. 3. By taking this chance, we want to emphasize the natural frequencies of the bending vibration of the shaft, which are also totally undetectable in the power spectrum. In Fig. 4 we can see two straight horizontal lines. That means these frequencies do not change over time. They are the first and the second natural frequencies excited in the rotation test, at 52 and 188 Hz, respectively. A single shaft supported by two journal bearing at the two ends can be viewed as a beam with simply-supported boundary conditions. Based on the vibration theory, for a simply supported beam, the second natural frequency is four times of the fundamental frequency. Obviously, 188/52 = 3.6 < 4. Since tighter boundary condition leads to higher natural frequency, the ratio less than four means the real journal bearing supports are not ideal simply-supported boundary conditions, which is reasonable. Because of the oil film clearance between the bearing and the shaft, the shaft is not tightly supported. The stiffness of the coupling also affects the boundary conditions. The detected natural frequencies from the spectrogram make perfect sense. The Wigner-Ville distribution is computed by correlating the time signal with a modified version of the time signal itself, but does not truncate time waveform into segments. Therefore its time-frequency resolution does not rely on the segment length, which leads to the highest resolution of all the quadratic time-frequency analysis methods. You do not have to worry about the window selection. From the mathematical perspective, another major advantage of the WVD is it can generate the close-form in the theoretical derivation, while the STFT and Gabor spectrograms do not have the close-form. The Wigner-Ville distribution also has other benefits for theoretical research. However, a serious disadvantage is the cross-term interference. The cross-terms indicate the existence of some false components between the real components. Figure 5 illustrates the WVD of the oil whirl-whip signal. Although the WVD possesses the highest resolution, the cross-term interference is so severe that it may be difficult to distinguish the real components from these artifacts. Signal processing experts favor the WVD because of its remarkable properties in theoretical research. However, due to the limitation caused by the cross-terms, the properties derived from mathematics are generally implemented using the STFT or the Gabor spectrogram in actual applications. Two other commonly mentioned quadratic time-frequency analysis methods are Choi-Williams Distribution (CWD) and Cone Shape Distribution (CSD). Although they can reduce the interference caused by some particular kind of cross-terms, they still suffer from other kinds of cross-terms. Moreover, the computation is very slow. So Spectra Quests Transient Analysis Module does not include these two methods.

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Figure 5. Wigner-Ville distribution of the oil whirl-whip signal.

2nd harmonic of oil whip

sidebands

critical speed

oil whip oil whirl

Figure 6. Zoomed Gabor spectrogram of the oil whip component. In the Transient Analysis Module, the Gabor spectrogram is a unique method which has combined the advantages of the STFT and the WVD. The Gabor spectrogram has higher resolution than the STFT and much suppressed cross-term interference. More powerfully, you 9

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also can use the zoom settings to zoom in a frequency range with a high frequency-resolution in this frequency region. For STFT spectrogram and the WVD, although you can zoom into a smaller area, just like what you did in the FFT analysis, it does not improve the resolution in this zoomed area, keeping the original resolution. However, for Gabor spectrogram, by selecting three parameters (start frequency, zoom factor, and number of frequency lines), you can study the time-frequency representation in great detail. Figure 6 shows a zoomed Gabor spectrogram modified from Fig. 1 (c). The start frequency is 30 Hz, the zoom factor is 16, and the number of frequency lines is 2048 in this 80 Hz frequency region. In this region, you can analyze the subtle changes of the components. The cost of these advantages is more computation time required for the Gabor spectrogram. Fortunately, as long as your data are not extremely large, the additional computation time is not noticeable. 2.3 Comparison and Tips So far we have introduced all the methods provided by Spectra Quests Transient Analysis Module and their features. Now it is a good time to summarize. Table 1 compares the performance of the three quadratic methods. Table 1. Comparison of three quadratic time-frequency analysis methods. Method STFT Gabor spectrogram WVD Calculation speed Fast Moderate Fast Resolution Fair Fine Best Cross-term interference No Minor Severe Zoom in No Yes No

When you use the Transient Analysis Module, please consider the following tips: 1. Due to it fast computation and easy operation, the STFT spectrogram is usually sufficient for most applications as long as you do not need special features of the spectrogram. When you have a large data set, try the STFT spectrogram first to roughly understand the overall properties of the signal, including the frequency change patterns, energy concentration, etc. Try different segment lengths to achieve a satisfactory resolution. 2. If you need to extract detailed information using the zoom in settings, or if you need a better time-frequency resolution, Gabor spectrogram is recommended. 3. WVD is more suitable for theoretical research because of its mathematical advantages. 4. If you need to reconstruct the time waveform of a frequency component or perform noise reduction, use the time-varying filter panel.

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3. CASE STUDIES 3.1 Oil Whirl and Oil Whip Oil whirl and whip are very destructive instability phenomena associated with fluid-lubricated bearings. A tangential force may be excited by the interaction between rotor and the surrounding fluid. The tangential force applied on the rotor is in the forward direction of rotation. Therefore it leads to instability vibration. During the startup stage, such vibration is called oil whirl which has a frequency slightly less than the X component. The oil whirl tracks the rotor speed as the 1X is increasing. Once the oil whirl reaches the first critical speed of the rotor, its frequency stops tracking the speed increase of 1X, but locks to the resonance frequency. At this moment, oil whirl becomes oil whip which is defined as a fluid-induced instability phenomenon whose frequency locks to the resonance frequency. Thats why oil whip is very dangerous and should be avoided. Please refer to Reference [1] for more information. Figures 1 through 6 provide detailed presentations based on the time-frequency analysis techniques. A traditional way to view the oil whirl-whip phenomena is using waterfall plot which consists of a series of monocolor lines. The 3D color map, as shown in Figs 1 through 6, if not a better data presentation method, is an alternative form of the waterfall plot. The waterfall plot was developed in the absence of color enabled display. Since we all have color monitor nowadays, color maps allow more information to be displayed and more reliably as well. First of all, a 3D waterfall plot can only be viewed from some angle. One has to find an appropriate angle to view the useful information. However, a high peak may hide other information. On the contrary, you can view all the time-frequency components clearly on a color map using one shot. If we use Spectra Quests Order Analysis Module, we can also view the 3D frequency-RPM components. Figure 7 compares the waterfall plot and color map of the frequency-RPM presentation of the same time waveform in Fig. 1(a). The magnitude in both the plot is in dB. In this panorama of the waterfall plot, higher resolution means more lines in the same plot area. The close lines make the plot not as clear as the color map. One who has been used to waterfall plots may say: hey, I can directly see the magnitude on a waterfall plot, what do the colors mean? Is red higher than blue? Well, the magnitude is defined in some kind of order from lowness to highness. The color scheme used in VibraQuest Transient analysis module is rainbow. Magnitude decreases from maximum to minimum in the order of red, orange, yellow, green, and blue, in the visible spectral range. To a human, a common feeling is that red is warm but blue is cold. Therefore, the order from red to blue, or from highness to lowness in terms of warmness, is also natural and proper to define the magnitude. A color blind person may complain this feature although it sounds attractive. It is all right. The Transient Analysis Module also provides color scheme in gray scale.

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oil whip, the frequency doesnt change with RPM

1X oil whirl critical speed

Figure 7. Comparison of waterfall plot and color map.

3.2 Use of Gabor expansion for speed estimation without tachometer Many large-scale machines are not equipped with a tachometer, and it is quite difficult to mount tachometers on some turbomachinery. While the speed profile is required in order analysis, the 12

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Gabor transform is then an alternative way to perform the speed estimation where the tachometer information is not available. Figure 8 shows the data of a shut-down test carried out also on the MFS Lite Extended. The color map is its Gabor-transform coefficients calculated using the optimal Gaussian window. By appropriate configuration of the rotor disks on the shaft, the first three resonance frequencies can be excited. Please refer to another tech note [2] for detailed experimental setup and more discussion using Bode and orbit plots to study the resonances. The color map in Fig. 8 depicts how the frequencies of the 1X component and its harmonics decrease over time. The three red spots represent the three critical speeds. By using a time-varying filter, the 1X component can be extract. Since the 1X component represents the running speed, the speed profile can then estimated. Figure 9 compares the speed profiles calculated using an analog tachometer and Gabor transform. It can be seen that the estimated speed profile using Gabor transform is quite accurate. This unique speed estimation feature is available in Spectra Quests Order Tracking Module. 1X 2X 3X

3rd critical speed 2nd critical speed 1st critical speed

Figure 8. Gabor transform of a shut-down test on MFS Lite Extended.

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(a)

(b)

Figure 9. Comparison of speed profiles calculated using analog tachometer (a) and displacement signal acquired using a proximity probe (b)

4. CONCLUSIONS In this tech note the features and applications of the time-frequency analysis techniques have been introduced. For rotating machinery, while the FFT analysis cannot tell how the frequency components change, the time-frequency analysis is suitable to identify the frequency change patterns and interpret the time-frequency features to discover the machinery faults associated with such features. Both the linear and quadratic time-frequency analysis methods were discussed and compared in terms of their performance. The time-varying filter can be used to reconstruct the time waveform of any frequency component in the time-frequency domain. The quadratic methods, especially the SFFT spectrogram and the Gabor spectrogram are recommended for signal analysis. Two examples were presented to show the use of Spectra Quests Transient Analysis Module for machinery fault diagnosis. Actually the time-frequency analysis techniques not only analyze the start-up and shut-down signals, but are also very necessary for steady state tests. For example, for a cracked shaft there is a crack open-close period for each revolution. Such an open-close period makes the magnitude of the 2X component periodically vary over time. The periodic variation is not detectable using the FFT analysis, but can be identified in the 3D time-frequency plot. References [1] Interesting Rotor Dynamics Observations on Oil Whirl and Whip, Spectra Quest Tech Note, April 2006. [2] Dynamic Behaviors of Rotor with Fluid Film Journal and Rolling Element Bearings, Spectra Quest Tech Note, November 2005 Note: all the tech notes are downloadable at http://www.Spectra Quest.com/tech/index.html

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