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About Enveloping …
… Using an Accelerometer Transducer
QUESTION: What Does Acceleration Enveloping ANSWER: Yes, keeping in mind that amplitude
Technology Detect? readings may decrease as damage becomes severe
due to smoothing of crater edges with a corresponding
ANSWER: Enveloping technology detects rotational impact
improvement in lubrication low. At the early stages of
defect signals. It enhances repetitive phenomena such as:
damage, however, readings should be trendable.
• Bearing Defects
QUESTION: Do Larger Acceleration Envelope Readings
• Gearbox Defects Imply Higher Impact Force?
ANSWER: Bearing problems such as: ANSWER: Enveloping measurements are most signiicant
on gear tooth fractures and repetitive bearing defects
• Holes of the impact type–especially with low-force impacts.
• Cracks Enveloping measurements do not relect signiicant
readings in applications which look at other things besides
• Spalls impact defects, such as misalignment, gear backlash, and
applications on very slow speed machinery.
• Dirt
QUESTION: In Which Applications Does An Acceleration
Other defects in:
Enveloped Signal Give Suficient
• Belts Information About Rolling Element Bearing
Condition and In Which Applications Is
• Felts
Enveloping Not Enough?
• Felt Rollers
ANSWER: Since enveloping measurements are
• Chains vibration measurements and since enveloping enhances
repetitive impact phenomena, enveloping gives excellent
Chipped teeth in gears. information in the early warning stages of bearing defects.
QUESTION: Can Acceleration Enveloped Readings Be If these measurements indicate an incipient failure, an
Trended? enveloping spectrum analysis would conirm the diagnosis.
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QUESTION: How Do Acceleration Envelope Readings
Correlate With Normal Vibration
Measurements?
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Frequently Asked Questions About Enveloping … Using An Accelerometer Transducer
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