Research Article

Time-Frequency Analysis Based on Improved Variational Mode Decomposition and Teager Energy Operator for Rotor System Fault Diagnosis

Table 2

Comparison of characteristic frequency average amplitude by HHT and IVMD-TEO.

Rotor fault typeFault frequency components (center frequency/Hz)⁢Extracted characteristic frequency average amplitude
HHT (μm)IVMD-TEO (μm)Improved ratio (%)

Rub-impact (56)3.88New
(84)4.13New
(112)3.50New

Oil-whirl (14)40.1354.3835.5
1X (29)27.3830.7512.3
(43)3.38New

Oil-whip (11.5)3.504.2521.4
(23)88.1399.2512.6
(36.5)7.25New
(48)61.6360.88
(71)5.88New
(84.5)2.75New
(96)3.50New
(119)3.13New

Note: “—” represents no extracted fault frequency by HHT and “new” represents new extracted fault frequency by IVMD-TEO.