A Study on the fault diagnosis of a cantilever beam using the Bispectrum

바이스펙트럼을 이용한 외팔보의 결함 진단에 관한 연구

This study is base on the fault detection and diagnosis when a crack is happened a structure. A crack in a structure will affect the modal parameters. We are searched a percentage of changes in the natural frequencies according to changes of location and propagation of the crack using the Rayleigh's energy method. This method is presented to identify the presence of a crack and its location. The study is carried out both theoretically and experimentally and the results are presented in this paper. The location of the crack is also moved from the fixed end to the free end along its length. The changes in natural frequencies are observed from theoretically study, due to the presence of the crack at different locations and depths, and the percentage change in frequency values are calculated. These results are confirmed by the experiments. And then, a difference between a cracked beam and uncracked beam observed using the bispectrum as high-order spectrum.