5.1 Quay Crane gearbox lifetime vibration loading spectrum
The study object is a gearbox of quay crane hoisting mechanism of a container terminal in Shanghai port, and the signal monitoring platform is the network crane condition monitoring and assessment system (Net-CMAS) and this system monitored vibration, temperature and stress signals online. The full lifetime data is derived from the vertical vibration sensor of the high-speed input shaft of the hoisting gearbox shown in Fig. 4. The signal sampling frequency is 24 kHz and sampling time is 1s, the sampling interval is set as 10s. Every time the data is collected, the system automatically calculates the effective value and stores it as a sample point of vibration loading spectrum sequence. After nearly 7 years and 8 months of on-line monitoring of the crane, some faults occurred at the hoisting gearbox. After shutting down for maintenance, it was found that the faults location was the high-speed input shaft roller bearing of the gearbox, and the failure mode was roller wear as shown in Fig. 5.
During the monitoring period, the Net-CMAS system collected the whole lifetime vibration loading spectrum of the hoisting gearbox from health to failure (the effective value sequence of each sampled signal). In order to facilitate the analysis, the massive loading spectrum is stored in the form of matrix with the 4608*2048 structure, and each row represents the loading spectrum sequence of approximately one day, including a total of 4608 rows of data.
5.2 Loading spectrum static symbolization
Firstly, the process of static symbolization of loading spectrum is introduced. The effective value of the first group of vibration loading spectrum is 1.8784, the parameters are set as a = 0.6, K = 8, so the basic scale of divided symbol BS0 = a*0.666 = 1.1270. Taking a section of loading spectrum in Fig. 6(a) as an example, the amplitude is symbolized according to the basic scale standard, and the symbolization sequence is shown in Fig. 6(b). Through the static symbolization of the amplitude, the amplitude of the continuous vibration loading spectrum is symbolized as a ‘digitized’ symbol sequence {1,2,3,4}, and the symbol sequence retains the amplitude distribution and variation of the original signal.
5.3 Analysis on effectiveness
Feature extraction is performed on each group of vibration loading spectrum in turn according to the above parameter settings, the entropy sequence dssei(i = 1,…,4608)is calculated as shown in Fig. 7. For comparison, the Basic Scale Entropy parameters are set as a = 0.6 and m = 4, and the BSE degradation curve of the lifetime loading spectrum is also obtained and shown in Fig. 8.
It is obvious from the comparison that through the improvement in static symbolization, the DSSE curve shows a relatively regular changing trend. With the deepening of the performance degradation degree, the value gradually increases, and the degradation phase is more obvious. The main reason is that unified basic scale BS0 is used in static symbolization. The deeper the degradation degree, the more large-scale shocks, and the more even in distribution of symbolized sequence pattern. Therefore, the value of the information entropy will increase. At the same time, while maintaining the overall increasing trend, the curve is mixed with a certain volatility, which is determined by large noise and many shocks in vibration signal. In contrast, the basic scale entropy curve is less regular and more volatile, making it difficult to accurately evaluate the degradation condition.
Therefore, the proposed static divided symbol sequence entropy is able to reflect the complexity evolution principle contained in signal amplitude during the performance degradation process. The deeper the performance degradation degree, the larger the value of degradation feature, and compared with the basic scale entropy method, the fluctuation of the curve is greatly reduced, and the overall trend is more obvious, which is more conducive to accurately tracking the performance degradation condition.
5.4 Influence analysis of the parameters
Three groups of vibration loading spectrum are taken as examples to analyze the influence of parameters. The samples include the 1st, 2000th, and 4200th groups and named as G1, G2000, and G4200 respectively. The loading spectrum time series is shown in Figure.9, the larger the loading spectrum group, the larger the proportion of the large amplitude component. At the same time, since the loading spectrum stores the root mean square value of each group signals, they are all positive values.
The number of symbols K determines the size of symbols set. Setting the parameters as m = 4, a = 0.6, the basic scale of divided symbolization is set as BS0 = a*0.666 = 1.1270. The number of symbols is set from 3 to 18. Under the condition of each symbol number, calculating three groups of the DSSE value changing curves, the result is shown in Fig. 10. It can be seen that as the number of symbols increases, the DSSE value gradually increases, but remains stable after a certain number of symbols. The main reason is that the number of symbols directly determines the number of symbol sequence patterns (Km). The initial number of symbols is small, and the pattern distribution of the symbol sequence is uneven. As the number of symbols increases, the pattern of the symbol sequence tends to more uniform, therefore, the value gradually increases. As the value of K increases, when the newly added symbol standard is too high to symbolize the amplitude of this sequence, the DSSE value will not increase any more. At the same time, it can be seen that the lower the group, the smaller the number of symbols when DSSE value is stable, which is consistent with the above analysis, that is, the number of symbols is able to gradually increase the information expression ability of the symbol sequence for high-amplitude signals and improve the complexity resolution of high-amplitude signal regions. Considering that the three sets of curves are stable when K > 7, when using the DSSE technique, K is set as 8 in this paper.
DSSE degradation character curves when symbols number is set as 4, 5, 6, and 7 are shown in Fig. 11 respectively. It is cleared from the comparison that the more the number of symbols, the larger the overall value, and with the increase of the symbols numbers, the DSSE value in the low-amplitude area is gradually stable, and the value of high-amplitude area gradually increases, improving the ability in distinguishing. This is consistent with the analysis conclusion of the above figure.
The value of the basic scale coefficient a will determine the size of the symbol area. Setting the parameters m = 4, K = 8, the basic scale of divided symbolization is set as BS0 = a*0.666 and the value of a is set from 0.1 to 2. The DSSE curves of three groups under different scale coefficient are shown in Fig. 12. It is clear that with the increase of the scale coefficient, the symbolized area also increases, and the DSSE value gradually increases, but the value gradually decreases after a certain level. The main reason lies that the larger the scale factor, the wider the symbolized area. As to the same group, when the number of symbols is unchanged, with the increase of the coefficient, the symbol sequence pattern can be made more uneven, and the coverage of symbol sequence will increase, so the entropy value of the sequence will increase. After reaching the maximum value, the symbolized area will continue increasing. At this time, the coverage pattern will tend to be uneven, and the high-amplitude symbol sequence pattern will increase, thereby reducing the DSSE value.
At the same time, the lower the group, the value will be smaller when reaching the DSSE maximum. Therefore, the basic scale factor is able to control the accuracy of the symbol sequence's ability to express signal information. When the value is greater than 0.8, the DSSE curves of the three groups are basically stable. Therefore, this parameter is suitable to be set to a > 0.8.
The comparison of DSSE degradation character curves when the basic scale coefficients are set as 0.1, 0.4, 0.8, and 1.2 respectively in Fig. 13. It is clear from the comparison that when the coefficient is small, the overall degradation curve is distorted, which indicates that the parameter selection is unreasonable. As the value increases, the overall resolution gradually increases and becomes stable, which is consistent with the analysis conclusion in the above figure.