Extracting fatigue damage features using STFT and CWT

The fatigue feature extraction using the Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) and wavelet transform approaches are presented in this paper. The transformation of the time domain signal into time-frequency domain computationally implemented using the STFT and Morlet wavelet methods provided the signal energy distribution display with respect to the particular time and frequency information. In this study, cycles with lower energy content were eliminated, and these selections were based on the signal energy distribution in the time representation. The simulation results showed that the Morlet wavelet was found to be a better approach for fatigue feature extraction. The wavelet-based analysis obtained a 59 second edited signal with the retention of at least 94 % of the original fatigue damage. The edited signal was 65 seconds (52 %) shorter than length of the edited signal that was found using the STFT approach. Hence, this fatigue data summarising algorithm can be used for accelerating the simulation works related to fatigue durability testing.

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