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Performance degradation analysis of solid lubricated bearings based on Laplace wavelet filter and self-organizing map

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Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

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Abstract

Solid lubricated bearings are commonly used in space mechanisms and other appliances, and their reliability analysis has drawn more and more attention. This paper focuses on the performance degradation analysis of solid lubricated bearings. Based on the vibration and friction torque signal of solid lubricated bearings, Laplace wavelet filter is adopted to process vibration signal and feature vector is constructed by calculating time-domain parameters of filtered vibration signal and original friction torque signal. Self-organizing map is then adopted to analyze the performance degradation based on extracted feature vectors. Experimental results show that this method can describe performance degradation process effectively.