Publications in Scientific Journals:
D. Bianchi, E. Mayrhofer, M. Gröschl, G. Betz, A. Vernes:
"Wavelet packet transform for detection of single events in acoustic emission signals";
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing,
64-65
(2015),
441
- 451.
English abstract:
Acoustic emissionsignalsintribologycanbeusedformonitoringthestateofbodiesin
contact andrelativemotion.Therecordedsignalincludesinformationwhichcanbe
associatedwithdifferentevents,suchastheformationandpropagationofcracks,
appearanceofscratchesandsoon.Oneofthemajorchallengesinanalyzingthese
acousticemissionsignalsistoidentifypartsofthesignalwhichbelongtosuchanevent
and discernitfromnoise.Inthiscontribution,awaveletpacketdecompositionwithinthe
frameworkofmultiresolutionanalysistheoryisconsideredtoanalyzeacousticemission
signalstoinvestigatethefailureoftribologicalsystems.Byapplyingthewaveletpacket
transform amethodfortheextractionofsingleeventsinrailcontactfatiguetestis
proposed. Theextractionofsucheventsatseveralstagesofthetestpermitsaclassifica-
tion andtheanalysisoftheevolutionofcracksintherail.
Keywords:
Event detection Waveletpackettransform Acoustic emission Rollingcontactfatigue Rail-wheel contact
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