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a description for virbation monitoring of industrial bearings states:
peak amplitues at 1 x rpm
should be an indicator for a fault in my case. Can somebody explain me what I have to understand under 1 x rpm. My chart (FFT) shows Amplitude in m/s^2 on the y-axis and Frquency in [Hz] on the x-axis.
Do I need to know how much rotations my bearings do in one minute? If somebody can give an example, also was 2 x rpm mean and how I calculate this value?
Thanks in advance!
RPM = revolutions per minute.
In the context of vibration monitoring, 1 x rpm means a vibration frequency that is the same as the rotation speed (one vibration oscillation per revolution of the rotor), 2 x rpm means a frequency 2 x the rpm (two oscillations per revolution), etc.
Because of nonlinear effects in the mechanical system, vibrations can be excited at different multiples of the rotation speed (1x, 2x, 3x, etc) and even at fractional multiples (for example 0.5x). However the "synchronous" vibration at 1x RPM usually has the biggest amplitude.
In fact some faults in mechanical bearings can excite vibrations at a frequency which doesn't have any "obvious" relation to the rotor speed - for example problems with the bearing lubrication system can excite so-called "oil whip" vibrations at about 0.9 x the rotor speed.
