Preprint Article Version 1 Preserved in Portico This version is not peer-reviewed

Prediction of Contact Fatigue Performance Degradation Trend Based on Multi-domain Features and Temporal Convolutional Network

Version 1 : Received: 4 July 2023 / Approved: 5 July 2023 / Online: 5 July 2023 (14:04:06 CEST)

A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists.

Liu, Y.; Liu, Y.; Yang, Y. Prediction of Contact Fatigue Performance Degradation Trends Based on Multi-Domain Features and Temporal Convolutional Networks. Entropy 2023, 25, 1316. Liu, Y.; Liu, Y.; Yang, Y. Prediction of Contact Fatigue Performance Degradation Trends Based on Multi-Domain Features and Temporal Convolutional Networks. Entropy 2023, 25, 1316.

Abstract

In order to realize the performance degradation trend prediction accurately, a prediction method based on multi-domain features and temporal convolutional network (TCN) is proposed. Firstly, construct a high-dimensional feature set in the multi-domain of vibration signals, and use comprehensive evaluation indicators to preliminarily screen performance degradation indexes with good sensitivity and strong trend. Secondly, the kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) method is adopted to eliminate redundant information between multi-domain features, and construct a health index (HI) based on convolutional auto-encoder (CAE) network. Thirdly, a TCN-based performance degradation trend prediction model is constructed, and direct multi-step prediction is used to predict the performance degradation trend of the monitored object. On this basis, the validity of the proposed method is verified using the bearing public data, and it is successfully applied to performance degradation trend prediction of rolling contact fatigue specimen. The results show that the feature set can be reduced from 14 dimensions to 4 dimensions by using KPCA, while 98.33% of the information of the original feature set is retained. Furthermore, the method of constructing HI based on CAE network is effective. The change process of the HI constructed truly reflects the performance degradation process of the rolling contact fatigue specimen. Compared with the two commonly used HI construction methods, auto-encoding (AE) network and gaussian mixture model (GMM), this method has obvious advantages. At the same time, the prediction model based on TCN can accurately predict the performance degradation of the rolling contact fatigue specimen with the root mean square error 0.0146 and the mean absolute error 0.0105, which has better performance and higher prediction accuracy than the prediction model based on the long short-term memory (LSTM) network and the gated recurrent unit (GRU). This method has general significance and may be extended to the performance degradation prediction of other mechanical equipment/parts.

Keywords

Contact Fatigue; Feature Extraction; Health Index; Degradation Prediction; Temporal Convolutional Network; Convolutional Auto-Encoder Network

Subject

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Comments (0)

We encourage comments and feedback from a broad range of readers. See criteria for comments and our Diversity statement.

Leave a public comment
Send a private comment to the author(s)
* All users must log in before leaving a comment
Views 0
Downloads 0
Comments 0
Metrics 0


×
Alerts
Notify me about updates to this article or when a peer-reviewed version is published.
We use cookies on our website to ensure you get the best experience.
Read more about our cookies here.