Analytical Prediction of the MCSA Signatures Under Dynamic Eccentricity in PM Machines With Concentrated Non-Overlapping Windings.

This paper proposes a novel algorithm which made it feasible to predict the harmonic fault signatures under dynamic eccentricity in Permanent-Magnet synchronous machines with concentrated non-overlapping winding for any slot-pole combination. In the literature, only the appearance of the fractional harmonic components related with the pole number has been proposed but there are no studies to predict which exact components will rise in each topology. Initially, a mathematical equation is derived for the machine EMF under dynamic eccentricity based on the air gap permeance model. Later on, the terms of this equation are inserted in a Fault Signature Block Binary Array in which the position of each cell expresses a specific harmonic frequency component. After substitution of the machines parameters, the array results with zero and nonzero terms. The positions of the nonzero terms express the frequency components excited by this particular fault. 3-D FEA and experimental results of a Permanent-Magnet Axial-Flux Machine are used to validate the proposed algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]