Achieving a reliable fault diagnosis for gears under variable operating conditions is a pressing need of industries to ensure productivity by averting unwanted breakdowns. In the present work, a hybrid approach is proposed by integrating Hu invariant moments and an artificial neural network for explicit extraction and classification of gear faults using time-frequency transforms. The Zhao-Atlas-Marks transform is used to convert the raw vibrations signals from the gears into time-frequency distributions. The proposed method is applied to a single-stage spur gearbox with faults created using electric discharge machining in laboratory conditions. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed methodology in classifying the faults in gears with high accuracy.

Since the induction motor operates in a complex environment, making the stator and rotor of the motor susceptible to damage, which would have significant impact on the whole system, efficient diagnostic methods are necessary to minimize the risk of failure. However, traditional fault diagnosis methods have limited applicability and accuracy in diagnosing various types of stator and rotor faults. To address this issue, this paper proposes a stator-rotor fault diagnosis model based on time-frequency domain feature extraction and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) optimized with Golden Jackal Optimization (GJO) to achieve highprecision diagnosis of motor faults. The proposed method first establishes a platform for acquiring induction motor stator-rotor fault data. Next, wavelet threshold denoising is used to pre-process the fault current signal data, followed by feature extraction to perform time-frequency domain eigenvalue analysis. By comparison, the impulse factor is finally adopted as the feature vector of the diagnostic model. Finally, an induction motor fault diagnosis model is constructed by using the GJO to optimize the ELM. The resulting simulations are carried out by comparing with neural networks, and the results show that the proposed GJO-ELM model has the highest diagnostic accuracy of 94.5%. This finding indicates that the proposed method outperforms traditional methods in feature learning and classification of induction motor fault diagnosis, and has certain engineering application value.

Noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a serious occupational related health problem worldwide. The A-wave impulse noise could cause severe hearing loss, and characteristics of such kind of impulse noise in the joint time-frequency (T-F) domain are critical for evaluation of auditory hazard level. This study focuses on the analysis of A-wave impulse noise in the T-F domain using continual wavelet transforms. Three different wavelets, referring to Morlet, Mexican hat, and Meyer wavelets, were investigated and compared based on theoretical analysis and applications to experimental generated A-wave impulse noise signals. The underlying theory of continuous wavelet transform was given and the temporal and spectral resolutions were theoretically analyzed. The main results showed that the Mexican hat wavelet demonstrated significant advantages over the Morlet and Meyer wavelets for the characterization and analysis of the A-wave impulse noise. The results of this study provide useful information for applying wavelet transform on signal processing of the A-wave impulse noise.