Advantages of periodic non-stationary random process model in vibration signal processing

The use of two different techniques for the analysis of vibration signals, whose carrier harmo¬nics are modulated by high-frequency narrow-band random processes is discussed. Periodically non-stationary random processes (PNRP) are suitable models for description of vibration signals of damaged mechanism. A proposed processing technique can be considered as an alternative to squared envelope analysis, kurtosis techniques, squared envelope spectrum (SES) and its use in the analysis of a vibration signal is discussed. It is shown that the spectral estimates obtained by the envelope square method are biased and inconsistent. The possibility of obtaining of the unbiased estimates by the PNVP method even for a signal/noise ratio equal to 0.07 has been demonstrated.