A new method of machinery diagnosis monitoring based on the acoustic imaging measurement

Abstract

Abstract A new method has been developed to perform a fantastic diagnosis monitoring for different kinds of machines, including small as computer, shaver, hand phone, or large as 4000hp engine, slow as a walking, or fast as flying in sky, based on acoustic imaging technology with a microphone array measurement system. With it noise field of machine can be analyzed from its sound image coupled in video in door and out door, even in some extent reverberated space. It is particularly useful to analysis large machine with multi noise source and low noise level machine. Comparing to traditional vibration measurement, this method can locate the diagnosis' center and separate every source with 15dB sub-lobe suppression.