On damage detection in wind turbine gearboxes using outlier analysis

Ifigeneia Antoniadou; Graeme Manson; Nikolaos Dervilis; Wieslaw J. Staszewski; Keith Worden

doi:10.1117/12.914772

29 March 2012 On damage detection in wind turbine gearboxes using outlier analysis

Ifigeneia Antoniadou, Graeme Manson, Nikolaos Dervilis, Wieslaw J. Staszewski, Keith Worden

Proceedings Volume 8343, Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies 2012; 83430N (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.914772
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The proportion of worldwide installed wind power in power systems increases over the years as a result of the steadily growing interest in renewable energy sources. Still, the advantages offered by the use of wind power are overshadowed by the high operational and maintenance costs, resulting in the low competitiveness of wind power in the energy market. In order to reduce the costs of corrective maintenance, the application of condition monitoring to gearboxes becomes highly important, since gearboxes are among the wind turbine components with the most frequent failure observations. While condition monitoring of gearboxes in general is common practice, with various methods having been developed over the last few decades, wind turbine gearbox condition monitoring faces a major challenge: the detection of faults under the time-varying load conditions prevailing in wind turbine systems. Classical time and frequency domain methods fail to detect faults under variable load conditions, due to the temporary effect that these faults have on vibration signals. This paper uses the statistical discipline of outlier analysis for the damage detection of gearbox tooth faults. A simplified two-degree-of-freedom gearbox model considering nonlinear backlash, time-periodic mesh stiffness and static transmission error, simulates the vibration signals to be analysed. Local stiffness reduction is used for the simulation of tooth faults and statistical processes determine the existence of intermittencies. The lowest level of fault detection, the threshold value, is considered and the Mahalanobis squared-distance is calculated for the novelty detection problem.

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Ifigeneia Antoniadou, Graeme Manson, Nikolaos Dervilis, Wieslaw J. Staszewski, and Keith Worden "On damage detection in wind turbine gearboxes using outlier analysis", Proc. SPIE 8343, Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies 2012, 83430N (29 March 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.914772

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