International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 07 Issue: 03 | Mar 2020 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2020, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 7.34 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 5164 Vibration Analysis Technique for the Diagnosis of Bearing Housing Vibrations with Different Housing Materials Tirthak Shah 1 , Ankit Darji 2 , Divyang H Pandya 3 1 PG scholar, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, LDRP-ITR College, Gujarat, INDIA 2 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, LDRP-ITR College, Gujarat, INDIA 3 Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, LDRP-ITR College, Gujarat, INDIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract - Rolling element bearings are the most common component in all rotating machineries. There are different types of materials are used for bearing component manufacturing as well as bearing housing manufacturing. This research is undertaken to study the vibrations at bearing housing due to rotation of bearing. In this research two different materials are taken to study the vibrations on housing. For this research, Mild steel and Bakelite Hylam sheet are used as housing material. This study is done at different speeds of bearing. For this study FFT analyzer is used and 30205 healthy taper roller bearing is used. The resulting vibration signals from FFT analyzer are processed by vibration based techniques. Key Words: Taper roller bearing, Vibration signature analysis, Varying Compliance (VC), Fundamental Train Frequency (FTF) 1. INTRODUCTION Bearing is used to reduce the mechanical friction between two rotating parts. There are different types of materials are used for bearings e.g. Ceramics, Chrome steel, Plastics, stainless steel etc. As well as, grey cast iron, cast steel, spheroidal graphite cast iron are used for housing materials. There are total four elements in bearing construction. 1) Outer ring, 2) Inner ring, 3) Rolling elements, 4) cage. Outer ring fits tightly inside bearing housing and it is not moving part. Inner ring fits tightly on shaft, which rotates with shaft. Rolling elements fill the gap between outer and inner ring, which may be ball shape, needle shape, cylindrical shape according to the type of the bearing. Cage is used to hold the rolling elements between outer ring and inner ring and allowing them to rotate freely. As shaft rotates, the inner ring rotates with the shaft and the outer ring is fixed. So, the balls start spinning inside the cage and the relative motion between inner and outer ring is done. The contact area is very less. Tuncay Karacay presented a paper on Experimental diagnostics of ball bearings using statistical and spectral methods. In this research, brand new bearing is installed and run throughout its lifespan under constant speed. Vibration signatures are produced and recorded. Vibration spectra are obtained and analyzed for defects. When the defect size increases, vibration magnitude increases. There is no general correlation between vibration magnitude and vibration amplitude. (1) Manoranjan Mahanta presented a paper on Vibration Signature Analysis & condition monitoring of Tapered Roller Bearing. There is a variation in the signature of the Natural frequencies of the roller bearing with a rise in depth of defects. By this signal, the fault frequencies can be matched with the healthy bearing frequencies and initial faults can be avoided by taking necessary actions before it becomes a major defect. (2) P.D. McFadden and J.D. Smith presented a paper on Vibration monitoring of rolling element bearings by the high frequency resonance technique. It is usually not useful calculating the bearing race and structural resonant frequencies, as calculations of the frequencies can give no level of the relative magnitudes of the resonances which are likely to be observed in practice. It is not possible even to be sure which frequencies correspond to which mode of vibration. (3) M. F. While presented a paper on Rolling Element Bearing Vibration Transfer Characteristics: Effect of Stiffness. Roller bearing stiffness is very nonlinear when the applied load is small and a slight increase in load will produce a large change in stiffness. At higher loads, the effect of the nonlinearity is less than that for ball bearings. For a typical configuration of bearing with relatively small clearance the number of rolling elements present in the load zone at any instant has an insignificant effect on the bearing nonlinear stiffness characteristics. (4) N. Tandon and A. Choudhary presented a paper on analytical model for the prediction of the vibration response of rolling element bearings due to a localized defect. The model predicts a frequency spectrum having peaks at characteristic defect frequencies with modulation in the case of a rolling element defect and an inner race defect under a radial load. The amplitudes at these frequencies are also expected for different defect locations. The amplitude for the outer race defect is found to be quite high with compare to the inner race defect and the rolling element defect. The amplitude level is also found to increase with an increase in load; and it is affected by the shapes of the generated pulses. (5)