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Table 1 Characteristic frequencies of each bearing component

From: FPGA implementation of an improved envelope detection approach for bearing fault diagnosis

Component frequencies

Fundamental frequency formulae \([{\varvec{H}}{\varvec{z}}]\)

Ball-pass frequency at the inner ring (\(BPFI\))

\({f}_{i}=\left(\frac{N}{2}\right)\cdot F\cdot \left(1+\left(\frac{B}{P}\right)\mathit{cos}\alpha \right)\)  

Ball-pass frequency at the outer ring (\(BPFO\))

\({f}_{o}=\left(\frac{N}{2}\right)\cdot F\cdot \left(1-\left(\frac{B}{P}\right)\cdot \mathit{cos}\alpha \right)\)  

Ball-spin frequency (\(BSF\))

\({f}_{b}=\left(\frac{P}{B}\right)\cdot \left(\frac{F}{2}\right)\cdot \left(1-{\left(\left(\frac{B}{P}\right)\cdot \mathit{cos}\alpha \right)}^{2}\right)\)  

Fundamental train frequency (\({\varvec{F}}{\varvec{T}}{\varvec{F}}\))

\({\varvec{f}}=\left(\frac{{\varvec{F}}}{2}\right)\cdot \left(1-\left(\frac{{\varvec{B}}}{{\varvec{P}}}\right)\cdot {\varvec{cos}}\boldsymbol{\alpha }\right)\)