BEARING DEVICE VIBRATION ANALYSIS METHOD, BEARING DEVICE VIBRATION ANALYZER, AND ROLLING BEARING CONDITION MONITORING SYSTEM

• US 20160187226A1
• Filed: 07/01/2014
• Published: 06/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTN Corporation
• Original Assignee: NTN Corporation
• Inventors: TSUTSUI, Hideyuki, SAKAGUCHI, Tomoya
• Application Number:
  US14/909,037
• Publication Number:
  US 20160187226A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 19/527 related to vibration and noise
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 13/045 Acoustic or vibration analysis

Abstract

A vibration analysis method includes the steps of: inputting data about damage of a rolling bearing; calculating, by a dynamics analysis program, a history of a displacement between inner and outer rings occurring to the rolling bearing due to the damage when a rotational shaft of the rolling bearing rotates; calculating a vibration characteristics model of the bearing device by a mode analysis program; and calculating a vibration waveform at a predetermined position on the bearing device by applying, to the vibration characteristics model, a history of an exciting force obtained by multiplying the displacement between the inner and outer rings calculated in the step of calculating a history, by a bearing spring constant.

Claims

1. A bearing device vibration analysis method for analyzing vibration of a bearing device by a computer, the bearing device including a rolling bearing and a housing of the rolling bearing, the method comprising the steps of:

inputting data about a shape of damage given to a contact portion between a rolling element and a raceway surface of the rolling bearing;

calculating a displacement between an inner ring and an outer ring of the rolling bearing caused by the damage;

calculating a vibration characteristics model by a mode analysis program for analyzing a vibration mode of the bearing device, the vibration characteristics model representing a vibration characteristic of the bearing device; and

calculating a vibration waveform at a predetermined position on the bearing device by applying, to the vibration characteristics model, a history of an exciting force occurring to the rolling bearing, the history of the exciting force being obtained by multiplying the displacement calculated in the step of calculating a displacement, by a spring constant between the inner ring and the outer ring.

2. The bearing device vibration analysis method according to claim 1, wherein in the step of calculating a vibration waveform, the history of the exciting force is applied to at least one point on a central axis of a rotational ring of the rolling bearing in the vibration characteristics model.

3. The bearing device vibration analysis method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of determining a threshold value of a magnitude of vibration for determining that the rolling bearing has an abnormality, using the vibration waveform calculated in the step of calculating a vibration waveform.

4. The bearing device vibration analysis method according to claim 1, wherein the step of calculating a displacement includes the step of calculating, by a dynamics analysis program for conducting a dynamics analysis of the rolling bearing, a history of the displacement caused by the damage during rotation of a rotational shaft of the rolling bearing.

5. The bearing device vibration analysis method according to claim 4, wherein

the rolling bearing is a ball bearing, and

the step of calculating a history of the displacement includes the steps of:

calculating, by a contact analysis program for analyzing contact between a rolling element and a raceway surface of the rolling bearing, a variation of an approach amount between the rolling element and the raceway surface caused by the given damage; and

calculating, by the dynamics analysis program, the history of the displacement caused by the variation of the approach amount during rotation of a rotational shaft of the rolling bearing.

6. The bearing device vibration analysis method according to claim 4, wherein

the rolling bearing is a roller bearing,

for the dynamics analysis program, a slice method is used by which a contact load is calculated for each of minute-width sections which are obtained by slicing a contact portion between a roller and a raceway surface along an axial direction of the roller,

the bearing device vibration analysis method further comprises the step of calculating, for each slice, a variation of an approach amount between the roller and the raceway surface caused by the given damage, and

the step of calculating a history of the displacement includes the step of calculating the history of the displacement by the dynamics analysis program for which the slice method is used.

7. The bearing device vibration analysis method according to claim 4, wherein in the step of calculating a history of the displacement, it is supposed that a stationary ring of the rolling bearing is connected to the housing through a linear spring in a bearing radial direction at a position of a rolling element within a load-applied area.

8. The bearing device vibration analysis method according to claim 4, wherein in the step of calculating a vibration waveform, the history of the displacement is applied to a rolling element within a load-applied area, depending on a share of a force supported by each rolling element within the load-applied area.

9. A bearing device vibration analyzer for analyzing vibration of a bearing device including a rolling bearing and a housing of the rolling bearing, comprising:

an input unit configured to input data about a shape of damage given to a contact portion between a rolling element and a raceway surface of the rolling bearing;

a displacement calculation unit configured to calculate a displacement between an inner ring and an outer ring of the rolling bearing caused by the damage;

a vibration characteristics calculation unit configured to calculate a vibration characteristics model by a mode analysis program for analyzing a vibration mode of the bearing device, the vibration characteristics model representing a vibration characteristic of the bearing device; and

a vibration waveform calculation unit configured to calculate a vibration waveform at a predetermined position on the bearing device by applying, to the vibration characteristics model calculated by the vibration characteristics calculation unit, a history of an exciting force occurring to the rolling bearing, the history of the exciting force being obtained by multiplying the displacement calculated by the displacement calculation unit, by a spring constant between the inner ring and the outer ring.

10. The bearing device vibration analyzer according to claim 9, wherein the displacement calculation unit calculates, by a dynamics analysis program for conducting a dynamics analysis of the rolling bearing, a history of the displacement caused by the damage during rotation of a rotational shaft of the rolling bearing.

11. A rolling bearing condition monitoring system comprising:

a vibration sensor configured to measure vibration of a bearing device including a rolling bearing and a housing of the rolling bearing; and

a determination unit configured to determine that the rolling bearing has an abnormality when a magnitude of the vibration measured with the vibration sensor exceeds a predetermined threshold value,

the predetermined threshold value being determined by using a vibration waveform calculated according to a vibration analysis method for analyzing vibration of the bearing device by a computer, and

the vibration analysis method including the steps of;

inputting data about a shape of damage given to a contact portion between a rolling element and a raceway surface of the rolling bearing;

calculating a displacement between an inner ring and an outer ring of the rolling bearing caused by the damage;

calculating a vibration characteristics model by a mode analysis program for analyzing a vibration mode of the bearing device, the vibration characteristics model representing a vibration characteristic of the bearing device; and

calculating a vibration waveform at a placement position of the vibration sensor on the bearing device, by applying, to the vibration characteristics model, a history of an exciting force occurring to the rolling bearing, the history of the exciting force being obtained by multiplying the displacement calculated in the step of calculating a displacement, by a spring constant between the inner ring and the outer ring.

12. The rolling bearing condition monitoring system according to claim 11, wherein the step of calculating a displacement includes the step of calculating, by a dynamics analysis program for conducting a dynamics analysis of the rolling bearing, a history of the displacement caused by the damage during rotation of a rotational shaft of the rolling bearing.

13. The rolling bearing condition monitoring system according to claim 11, wherein

the placement position of the vibration sensor is selected using the vibration waveform calculated according to the vibration analysis method, and

the step of calculating a vibration waveform includes the step of calculating a vibration waveform at an arbitrary position on the bearing device by applying the history of the exciting force to the vibration characteristics model.

14. The rolling bearing condition monitoring system according to claim 11, wherein

the vibration analysis method is used to calculate a plurality of vibration waveforms for respective plurality of candidate positions which can be set as the placement position of the vibration sensor, and

a candidate position with a maximum acceleration amplitude of vibration is selected, from the plurality of candidate positions, as the placement position of the vibration sensor.

15. The rolling bearing condition monitoring system according to claim 14, wherein

the bearing device includes a bearing device provided to a main shaft of a wind power generation facility,

for each of the plurality of candidate positions, a ratio is calculated of an acceleration amplitude of vibration according to the vibration analysis method, to an acceleration amplitude of vibration of the bearing device excited by an exciting force occurring to the main shaft, and

from the plurality of candidate positions, a candidate position for which the ratio is a maximum ratio is selected as the placement position of the vibration sensor.

16. The rolling bearing condition monitoring system according to claim 14, wherein

the bearing device includes a bearing device provided to a gearbox of a wind power generation facility,

for each of the plurality of candidate positions, a ratio is calculated of an acceleration amplitude of vibration calculated according to the vibration analysis method, to an acceleration amplitude of vibration of the bearing device excited by an exciting force occurring to a gear of the gearbox, and

from the plurality of candidate positions, a candidate position for which the ratio is a maximum ratio is selected as the placement position of the vibration sensor.

17. The rolling bearing condition monitoring system according to claim 14, wherein

the bearing device includes a bearing device provided to a generator of a wind power generation facility,

the generator is connected by a coupling portion to a gearbox of the wind power generation facility,

for each of the plurality of candidate positions, a ratio is calculated of an acceleration amplitude of vibration calculated according to the vibration analysis method, to an acceleration amplitude of vibration of the bearing device excited by an exciting force occurring to the coupling portion, and

from the plurality of candidate positions, a candidate position for which the ratio is a maximum ratio is selected as the placement position of the vibration sensor.

18. The rolling bearing condition monitoring system according to claim 11, further comprising a selection unit configured to select the placement position of the vibration sensor using a vibration waveform calculated according to the vibration analysis method.

19. The rolling bearing condition monitoring system according to claim 11, wherein the predetermined threshold value is determined using a vibration waveform which is expected to be exhibited at the placement position selected, of the vibration sensor when an abnormality occurs to the rolling bearing.