Noise Analysis of Air Disc Brake Systems Using Wavelet Synchro Squeezed Transform

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Recently, signal processing methods are shown to be successful while diagnosing faults in mechanical systems, using noise or vibration data.  In this study, two different faulty air disc brakes; noisy and less noisy ones are investigated using Wavelet Synchrosqueezed Transform on audio recordings. The difference between two types are shown in scalogram and also verified by a quantitative measure of entropy. The audio recording has been carried out by using two identical microphones sited on the brakes via data acquisition unit at a sampling rate of 20 kHz, 16-bit resolution and these data are analyzed in MATLAB software. The average of the entropy values of faulty and non-faulty brakes were found to be 0.98 and 0.65, respectively. Therefore, it has been concluded that, the entropy could be used as a distinguishing tool to discriminate the faults.

Keywords

• Air Disc Brake,Entropy,Noise analysis,Sound Processing,Wavelet Synchro Squeezed Transform

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