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Research Advances of Fault Diagnosis Technique for Planetary Gearboxes

LEI Yaguo HE Zhengjia LIN Jing HAN Dong KONG Detong

(State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian 710049)

AbstractPlanetary gearboxes are widely used in large-scale and complex mechanical equipments such as wind turbines, helicopters,
construction machinery, etc. Low-speed and heavy-duty operation conditions frequently cause faults, such as severe pitting and
fatigue crack etc., occurrence in the key components of the planetary gearboxes. The existing fault diagnosis theory and technology
for traditional gearboxes (fixed-shaft gearboxes), however, fail to effectively solve the difficulty in the fault diagnosis of planetary
gearboxes. In the planetary gearboxes, multiple mode mixing and complicated vibration transmission paths make fault response quite
weak; large-range and instantaneous load fluctuation causes vibration obvious nonstationarity; the vibration responses of multiple
meshing gear pairs couple with each other and correspondingly lead to evident nonlinearity; low-frequency characteristics are easily
buried by heavy noise. The characteristics and difficulty of planetary gearbox fault diagnosis are discussed, and the inland and
overseas research advances are reviewed from dynamic modeling and dynamic signal processing. The existing key problems in the
current research are pointed out and the approaches to these problems are discussed.
Key wordsPlanetary gearboxes Dynamic models Signal processing Fault diagnosis

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