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Development of gear fault diagnosis architecture for combat aircraft engine

  • Rajdeep De (Department of Mechanical Engineering, DIAT (DU)) ;
  • S.K. Panigrahi (Department of Mechanical Engineering, DIAT (DU))
  • Received : 2022.08.04
  • Accepted : 2023.07.31
  • Published : 2023.07.25
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Abstract

The gear drive of a combat aircraft engine is responsible for power transmission to the different accessories necessary for the engine's operation. Incorrect power transmission can occur due to the presence of failure modes in the gears like bending fatigue, pitting, adhesive wear, scuffing, abrasive wear and polished wear etc. Fault diagnosis of the gear drive is necessary to get an early indication of failure of the gears. The present research is to develop an algorithm using different vibration signal processing techniques on industrial vibration acquisition systems to establish gear fault diagnosis architecture. The signal processing techniques have been used to extract various feature vectors in the development of the fault diagnosis architecture. An open-source dataset of other gear fault conditions is used to validate the developed architecture. The results is a basis for development of artificial intelligence based expert systems for gear fault diagnosis of a combat aircraft engine.

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