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A Survey on Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings

  • Bo Peng,
  • Ying Bi,
  • Bing Xue,
  • Mengjie Zhang and
  • Shuting Wan

26 September 2022

The failure of a rolling bearing may cause the shutdown of mechanical equipment and even induce catastrophic accidents, resulting in tremendous economic losses and a severely negative impact on society. Fault diagnosis of rolling bearings becomes an...

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2 Citations
1,173 Views
20 Pages

8 March 2025

To enhance the maintenance efficiency and operational stability of rolling bearings, this work establishes a methodology for bearing life prediction, employing digital twin systems to evaluate the remaining useful life of rolling bearings. A comprehe...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,528 Views
19 Pages

A Hierarchical Decision Fusion Diagnosis Method for Rolling Bearings

  • Jingzhou Fei,
  • Xinran Lv,
  • Yunpeng Cao and
  • Shuying Li

14 January 2021

In order to achieve accurate fault diagnosis of rolling bearings, a hierarchical decision fusion diagnosis method for rolling bearings is proposed. The hierarchical back propagation neural networks (BPNNs) architecture includes a fault detection laye...

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  • Open Access
54 Citations
5,066 Views
23 Pages

RUL Prediction of Rolling Bearings Based on a DCAE and CNN

  • Chenyang Wang,
  • Wanlu Jiang,
  • Xukang Yang and
  • Shuqing Zhang

5 December 2021

Predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of mechanical equipment can improve production efficiency while effectively reducing the life cycle cost and failure rate. This paper proposes a method for predicting the remaining service life of equipment...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,262 Views
13 Pages

Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings Based on EWT and KDEC

  • Mingtao Ge,
  • Jie Wang and
  • Xiangyang Ren

5 December 2017

This study proposes a novel fault diagnosis method that is based on empirical wavelet transform (EWT) and kernel density estimation classifier (KDEC), which can well diagnose fault type of the rolling element bearings. With the proposed fault diagnos...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,721 Views
20 Pages

24 March 2025

This paper proposed a digital twin modeling method based on digital twin technology to improve the operational stability of rolling bearings and the accuracy of fault diagnosis methods. A comprehensive digital twin model for the entire lifecycle of r...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,643 Views
23 Pages

24 January 2019

The rolling bearings used in various industrial applications are exposed to fatigue failure during their operation. Generally, in a practical application, the ISO 281:2007 standard is used for fatigue life assessments of rolling bearings. The applica...

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27 Citations
2,946 Views
18 Pages

Research on a Nonlinear Dynamic Incipient Fault Detection Method for Rolling Bearings

  • Huaitao Shi,
  • Jin Guo,
  • Xiaotian Bai,
  • Lei Guo,
  • Zhenpeng Liu and
  • Jie Sun

3 April 2020

The incipient fault detection technology of rolling bearings is the key to ensure its normal operation and is of great significance for most industrial processes. However, the vibration signals of rolling bearings are a set of time series with non-li...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,015 Views
19 Pages

5 May 2023

A rolling bearing vibration signal fault feature enhancement method based on adaptive complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise algorithm (CEEMDAN) and maximum correlated kurtosis deconvolution (MCKD) is proposed to address t...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,946 Views
22 Pages

Fault Diagnosis Method for Rolling Bearings Based on Grey Relation Degree

  • Yulin Mao,
  • Jianghui Xin,
  • Liguo Zang,
  • Jing Jiao and
  • Cheng Xue

29 February 2024

Aiming at the difficult problem of extracting fault characteristics and the low accuracy of fault diagnosis throughout the full life cycle of rolling bearings, a fault diagnosis method for rolling bearings based on grey relation degree is proposed in...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,927 Views
33 Pages

18 July 2024

Bearing component damage contributes significantly to rotating machinery failures. It is vital for the rotor-bearing system to be in good condition to ensure the proper functioning of the machine. Over recent decades, extensive research has been devo...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,401 Views
25 Pages

28 August 2024

As an important part of industrial equipment, the safe and stable operation of rolling bearings is an important guarantee for the performance of mechanical equipment. Aiming at the problem that it is difficult to characterize the running state of rol...

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6 Citations
2,631 Views
13 Pages

The reason for the failure of electric vehicle drives is increasingly current-induced damage to rolling bearings. Studies show that rolling bearings are more susceptible to current pass-through after the first occurrence of unwanted bearing currents....

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17 Citations
5,043 Views
22 Pages

25 May 2017

Fault diagnosis for rolling bearings has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, few studies have focused on fault diagnosis for rolling bearings under variable conditions. This paper introduces a fault diagnosis method for rolling b...

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61 Citations
6,072 Views
23 Pages

A Survey on Fault Diagnosis Approaches for Rolling Bearings of Railway Vehicles

  • Guangxi Yan,
  • Jiang Chen,
  • Yu Bai,
  • Chengqing Yu and
  • Chengming Yu

8 April 2022

This paper reviews the current research status of rolling bearing fault diagnosis technology for railway vehicles. Several domains are covered, including vibration fault diagnosis, acoustic signal fault diagnosis, and temperature prediction diagnosis...

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5 Citations
2,920 Views
15 Pages

Predicting the Electrical Impedance of Rolling Bearings Using Machine Learning Methods

  • Eckhard Kirchner,
  • Christoph Bienefeld,
  • Tobias Schirra and
  • Alexander Moltschanov

18 February 2022

The present paper describes a measurement setup and a related prediction of the electrical impedance of rolling bearings using machine learning algorithms. The impedance of the rolling bearing is expected to be key in determining the state of health...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,254 Views
18 Pages

18 November 2017

Bearing vibration response studies are crucial for the condition monitoring of bearings and the quality inspection of rotating machinery systems. However, it is still very difficult to diagnose bearing faults, especially rolling element faults, due t...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,044 Views
14 Pages

14 July 2023

Rolling bearings are critical rotating components in aerospace and high-speed trains. The service loads of rolling bearings are generally different from each other, causing significant differences in their damage degrees and reliable life potential....

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11 Citations
4,915 Views
25 Pages

27 March 2019

In order to extract fault features of rolling bearings to characterize their operation state effectively, an improved method, based on modified variational mode decomposition (MVMD) and multipoint optimal minimum entropy deconvolution adjusted (MOMED...

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49 Citations
4,074 Views
13 Pages

DWT-LSTM-Based Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings with Multi-Sensors

  • Kai Gu,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Xiaobo Liu,
  • Heng Li and
  • Mifeng Ren

27 August 2021

Bearings are widely used in many steam turbine generator sets and other large rotating equipment. With the rapid development of contemporary industry, there is a great number of rotating equipment in various large factories, such as nuclear power pla...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,978 Views
15 Pages

23 April 2022

Since the rolling bearing is complex during the signal acquisition process, there is a certain loss during the process of collecting the vibration signal. This has led to the weakness of the early fault characteristics of the rolling bearing, affecti...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,616 Views
22 Pages

Application of Teager–Kaiser Energy Operator in the Early Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings

  • Xiangfu Shi,
  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Zhiling Xia,
  • Binhua Li,
  • Xin Gu and
  • Tingna Shi

3 September 2022

Rolling bearings are key components that support the rotation of motor shafts, operating with a quite high failure rate among all the motor components. Early bearing fault diagnosis has great significance to the operation security of motors. The main...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,011 Views
15 Pages

20 June 2017

Varying speed conditions bring a huge challenge to incipient fault detection of rolling element bearings because both the change of speed and faults could lead to the amplitude fluctuation of vibration signals. Effective detection methods need to be...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,513 Views
33 Pages

Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings in Primary Mine Fans under Sample Imbalance Conditions

  • Wei Cui,
  • Jun Ding,
  • Guoying Meng,
  • Zhengyan Lv,
  • Yahui Feng,
  • Aiming Wang and
  • Xingwei Wan

18 August 2023

Rolling bearings are crucial parts of primary mine fans. In order to guarantee the safety of coal mine production, primary mine fans commonly work during regular operation and are immediately shut down for repair in case of failure. This causes the s...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
997 Views
16 Pages

A Hybrid Approach Based on the SR-HWPT-PDF for Identifying Early Fault Signals in Rolling Bearings

  • Zhaoyang Feng,
  • Pengfei Xing,
  • Guobin Li,
  • Lu Zhang,
  • Lixun Lu,
  • Xiaoliang He and
  • Hongpeng Zhang

17 October 2024

An approach combining the stochastic resonance, the harmonic wavelet packet transforms and the probability density function was proposed to obtain the early fault signal of a rolling bearing. Firstly, an adaptive variable-scale stochastic resonance w...

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7 Citations
2,888 Views
15 Pages

False brinelling damage in rolling bearings can lead to reduced component lifetimes and increased noise emissions, adversely affecting machine performance. Therefore, minimizing or avoiding such damage is very important. Environmental or operating co...

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32 Citations
3,468 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2020

It is difficult to extract the fault signal features of locomotive rolling bearings and the accuracy of fault diagnosis is low. In this paper, a novel fault diagnosis method based on the optimized variational mode decomposition (VMD) and resonance de...

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6 Citations
2,738 Views
9 Pages

The embedding situation between various nanoparticles and rough surfaces affects the lubrication characteristics of rolling bearings. If not properly handled, this can easily lead to wear damage of rolling bearings. Therefore, the friction and wear m...

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25 Citations
3,466 Views
15 Pages

18 March 2019

This paper proposes a new method named composite multiscale fluctuation dispersion entropy (CMFDE), which measures the complexity of time series under different scale factors and synthesizes the information of multiple coarse-grained sequences. A sim...

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9 Citations
3,112 Views
22 Pages

Dynamics Modeling and Analysis of Rolling Bearings Variable Stiffness System with Local Faults

  • Baoliang Guo,
  • Wenlong Wu,
  • Jianxiao Zheng,
  • Yumin He and
  • Jinhua Zhang

By analyzing the support of load-carrying rolling elements when the rolling elements fall into the fault position, the dynamics model of a rolling bearing variable stiffness system with local faults is proposed, considering the retention factor of th...

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3 Citations
1,956 Views
19 Pages

Investigation of the Electrical Impedance Signal Behavior in Rolling Element Bearings as a New Approach for Damage Detection

  • Florian Michael Becker-Dombrowsky,
  • Johanna Schink,
  • Julian Frischmuth and
  • Eckhard Kirchner

19 July 2024

The opportunities of impedance-based condition monitoring for rolling bearings have been shown earlier by the authors: Changes in the impedance signal and the derived features enable the detection of pitting damages. Localizing and measuring the pitt...

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8 Citations
3,876 Views
13 Pages

27 July 2019

Skidding damage mechanism of rolling bearings is not clear, due to the influence of various coupling factors. To solve this problem, it is important to identify and diagnose skidding damage and study the vibration characteristics in rolling bearings....

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,257 Views
20 Pages

8 January 2025

To address the vulnerability of rolling bearings to noise interference in industrial settings, along with the problems of weak noise resilience and inadequate generalization in conventional residual network frameworks, this study introduces an adapti...

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8 Citations
4,035 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Fault Diagnosis Method of Rolling Bearings Based on AFEWT-KDEMI

  • Mingtao Ge,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Fangfang Zhang,
  • Ke Bai and
  • Xiangyang Ren

11 June 2018

According to the dynamic characteristics of the rolling bearing vibration signal and the distribution characteristics of its noise, a fault identification method based on the adaptive filtering empirical wavelet transform (AFEWT) and kernel density e...

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4 Citations
2,754 Views
16 Pages

Use of Printed Sensors to Measure Strain in Rolling Bearings under Isolated Boundary Conditions

  • Marcel Bartz,
  • Felix Häußler,
  • Fabian Halmos,
  • Markus Ankenbrand,
  • Michael Jüttner,
  • Jewgeni Roudenko,
  • Sven Wirsching,
  • Marcus Reichenberger,
  • Jörg Franke and
  • Sandro Wartzack

2 October 2023

The knowledge of the operating conditions in rolling bearings in technical applications offers many advantages, for example, to ensure a safe operation and to save resources and costs with the help of condition monitoring and predictive maintenance p...

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10 Citations
2,747 Views
19 Pages

Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Rolling Bearings Based on ECA-CAE and Autoformer

  • Jianhua Zhong,
  • Huying Li,
  • Yuquan Chen,
  • Cong Huang,
  • Shuncong Zhong and
  • Haibin Geng

In response to the need for multiple complete bearing degradation datasets in traditional deep learning networks to predict the impact on individual bearings, a novel deep learning-based rolling bearing remaining life prediction method is proposed in...

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3 Citations
2,876 Views
29 Pages

29 January 2025

Compared to vibration sensors, microphones offer several advantages, including non-contact detection, high sensitivity, low cost, and ease of installation. To address the challenges posed by the complex components and significant interference in roll...

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22 Citations
3,509 Views
17 Pages

19 January 2023

Aiming at the problem that a single neural network model has difficulty in accurately predicting trends of the remaining useful life of a rolling bearing, a method of predicting the remaining useful life of rolling bearings using a gated recurrent un...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,079 Views
19 Pages

2 November 2023

In response to issues such as the lack of capability for timely early warning and the difficulty in monitoring the status of rolling bearings, a condition-monitoring method for rolling bearings based on the Honey Badger Algorithm (HBA) for optimizing...

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16 Citations
3,813 Views
16 Pages

18 June 2020

Wind turbines work in strong background noise, and multiple faults often occur where features are mixed together and are easily misjudged. To extract composite fault of rolling bearings from wind turbines, a new hybrid approach was proposed based on...

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15 Citations
4,322 Views
18 Pages

11 May 2018

As a nonlinear dynamic method for complexity measurement of time series, multiscale entropy (MSE) has been successfully applied to fault diagnosis of rolling bearings. However, the MSE algorithm is sensitive to the predetermined parameters and depend...

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6 Citations
1,820 Views
18 Pages

Most of the published documents on the friction and wear properties of textured contact surfaces with partially distributed units (e.g., dots, grooves) are focused on sliding tribo-pairs or journal bearings. To study the friction and wear performance...

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17 Citations
3,255 Views
17 Pages

15 March 2023

The fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is critical for the reliability assurance of mechanical systems. The operating speeds of the rolling bearings in industrial applications are usually time-varying, and the monitoring data available are difficult...

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11 Citations
2,726 Views
14 Pages

14 June 2022

Due to the influence of signal-to-noise ratio in the early failure stage of rolling bearings in rotating machinery, it is difficult to effectively extract feature information. Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) has been widely used to decompose vib...

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9 Citations
2,286 Views
20 Pages

4 February 2024

Rolling bearings are one of the most important and indispensable components of a mechanical system, and an accurate prediction of their remaining life is essential to ensuring the reliable operation of a mechanical system. In order to effectively uti...

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11 Citations
2,297 Views
16 Pages

In the context of addressing the challenge posed by limited fault samples in agricultural machinery rolling bearings, especially when early fault characteristics are subtle, this study introduces a novel approach. The proposed multi-domain fault diag...

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872 Views
15 Pages

11 June 2025

Rolling bearing fault diagnosis in electric hoists faces significant challenges due to heavy noise and complex vibration interferences, which obscure fault signatures and hinder conventional demodulation methods. While existing techniques like the Te...

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11 Citations
3,627 Views
17 Pages

16 April 2022

It is difficult to accurately extract the health index of non-stationary signals of rolling bearings under variable rotational speed, which also leads to greater prediction error for bearing degradation models with fixed parameters. For this reason,...

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36 Citations
4,176 Views
22 Pages

10 October 2018

Fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is important for ensuring the safe operation of industrial machinery. How to effectively extract the fault features and select a classifier with high precision is the key to realizing the fault recognition of beari...

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10 Citations
3,231 Views
19 Pages

14 March 2022

As for the fault diagnosis of rolling bearings under strong background noises, whether the fault feature extraction is comprehensive and accurate is critical, especially for the data-driven fault diagnosis methods. To improve the comprehensiveness an...

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