Rotor Blades Condition Monitoring Method Based on the Elimination of the Environment Signal

• Published in: Research works of Air Force Institute of Technology 2009-01, Vol.25 (1), p.15
• Main Authors: Lindstedt, Pawel, Rokicki, Edward, Borowczyk, Henryk, Majewski, Pawel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1234-3544; 2083-8573
• DOI: 10.2478/v10041-009-0005-y

Rotor Blades Condition Monitoring Method Based on the Elimination of the Environment Signal The paper presents fundamentals of a new method for monitoring of technical condition demonstrated by blades of rotor machines during operation thereof. The method involves the diagnostic model expressed as a quotient of the amplitude amplification for the diagnostic signal y(t) that results from the blade impact and the signal x(t) produced by the blade surrounding when the blade tip approaches the sensor, divided by the amplitude amplification of these signals when the blade tip has already passed the sensor position and moves away. The adopted diagnostic model takes account for current surrounding of the blade x(t) with no need of measurements of its parameters [12, 14, 15]. Thus, the model is sensitive to alterations of the technical condition demonstrated by the blade but very little vulnerable to variations in the blade surroundings. Consequently, the proposed method may be able to play an important role for diagnostics of rotor blades during operation thereof.