The invention relates to the technical field of
mechanical equipment state monitoring and fault diagnosis, and discloses a bearing damage positioning method based on
modal acoustic emission and normalized cross correlation. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, establishing a bearing three-dimensional model, and solving a
phase velocity frequency dispersion curve of an
acoustic emission signal in the bearing by adopting a semi-analytical
finite element method; according to the
frequency dispersion curve,
Lamb waves with different frequencies in the same mode are excited in the model,
simulation signals at different positions are extracted, and the propagation speeds of the
simulation signals are calculated; the
simulation signal is used as a template, and the
arrival time with the maximum correlation with the template in the
acoustic emission signal is determined by using a normalized cross-
correlation method; and the distance between the damage position and the sensor is calculated by combining the propagation velocity difference and the
time difference of the
Lamb waves with different frequencies, so that the precise positioning of the bearing damage is realized. According to the method, the problem that the multi-frequency Lamb
wave propagation velocity in the bearing is difficult to solve is solved, the calculation precision of the
time difference of arrival is improved through normalized cross-correlation, damage positioning can be completed by using a single sensor, and the installation difficulty and the detection cost are reduced.