Abstract
The morpholgies of the wear particles are directly indicative of wear processes occuring in machinery and their severity. The neural network was applied to identify wear debris generated from the machine driving system. The four parameters(50% volumetric diameter, aspect, roundness and reflectivity) of wear debris are used as inputs to the network and learned the friction condition of five values(material 3, applied load 1, sliding distance 1). It is shown that identification results depend on the ranges of these shape parameters learned. The three kinds of the wear debris had a different patter characteristic and recognized the friction condition and materials very well by artificial neural network. We discussed how the network determines differencee in wear debris feature, and this approach can be applied to foreseeability and decisio for moving condition of the Machine driving system.
