Stream Turbine Vibration Fault Diagnosis

Abstract

RBF neural networks possessed the excellent characteristics such as insensitive on the initial weights and parameters with artificial fish-swarm algorithm (AFSA) applied, which made it have abilities to get rid of the local extremum and obtain the global extremum, and called as AFSA-RBF neural networks. In this paper, a new stream turbine vibration fault diagnosis method was presented based on AFSA-RBF neural networks. After quantification and reduction of the diagnosis decision table, the simplified decision table served as the learning samples of AFSA-RBF neural network, and the well-trained neural network was then applied to diagnose stream turbine vibration faults. The diagnosis results show that the proposed method possesses higher convergence speed and diagnosis precision, and is a very effective turbine fault diagnosis method.