Bearing Fault Feature Enhancement and Diagnosis Based on Statistical Filtering and 1.5-Dimensional Symmetric Difference Analytic Energy Spectrum

Bearing fault impulses are easily submerged by background noise, resulting in the inconspicuous fault feature and affecting the accuracy of the fault diagnosis. This paper presents a novel method for bearing the fault feature enhancement and diagnosis based on the statistical filtering and the 1.5-dimensional symmetric difference analytic energy operator (1.5D-SDAEO) to solve the problem. 1). The statistical filtering is used to filter the background noise under the standard distinction index. 2). The 1.5D-SDAEO is used to enhance the signal impulse, suppress the residual noise, and improve the SNR. 3). The dominant frequency in the energy spectrum is compared with the rolling bearing fault characteristic frequency to the fault diagnosis. The feasibility and the superiority of the presented method are verified by the simulation, engineering, and comparison experiments. All results show that the presented method can effectively enhance the fault feature and accurately diagnose the rolling bearing fault.