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Journal of Mechanical Engineering ›› 2020, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (4): 35-41.doi: 10.3901/JME.2020.04.035

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Smart Failure/Fault Diagnosis and Influence Analysis for Mechanical Equipment with Multivariate Gaussian Bayesian Method

ZHU Jianxin1,2, CHEN Xuedong1,2, Lü Baolin1,2, WANG Yifang1,2, QIAO Song1,2, CHEN Jiahong1,2   

  1. 1. Hefei General Machinery Research Institute Co. Ltd., Hefei 230031;
    2. National Technology Research Center for Safety Engineering of Pressure Vessels and Pipelines, Hefei 230031
  • Received:2019-10-21 Revised:2020-01-07 Online:2020-02-20 Published:2020-04-23

Abstract: The failure/fault of mechanical equipment is diagnosed with multivariate Gaussian Bayesian classifier. Based on the maximum likelihood methodology, a novel influence analysis model based on "Mahalanobis distance" estimation is proposed. The method is then applied to two datasets for the mechanical equipment failure/fault mode identification. The results show that the proposed method obtains high diagnostic recognition rate (failure/fault mode recognition rate in two cases are 96% and 86%, respectively), as well as principal attributes that contribute to specific failure/fault modes. It is found that the specific failure/fault mode mainly depends on a few characteristic parameters, while the unspecified failure/fault mode always involves several diverse characteristic parameters. The desperation of key parameters will cause the unsatisfactory result of multivariate Gaussian Bayesian classifier. The model proposed in this paper is helpful for the intelligent diagnose of failure/fault mode of mechanical equipment and the analysis of key parameters that contribute to specific failure/fault mode, and so as to provide guidance for failure/fault reasoning.

Key words: Gaussian Bayesian, failure/fault diagnosis, characteristic parameter, influence analysis, Mahalanobis distance

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