A novel method for detecting bearing defects based on EMD and fractal dimension

Bearings are widely used in rotating machines. Its health status is a significant index to indicate whether machines run continually or not. Detecting the bearing defects timely is very important for the maintenance decision making. In this paper, a novel bearing defects detection method based on EMD and Fractal Dimension is developed. The original data is decomposed into a set of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) using EMD, and the fractal dimension of IMFs which contains bearing fault characteristic information are calculated, and these characteristic parameters are used to identify bearing fault types. The effectiveness of this methodology is demonstrated using experimental data.

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