A simplified approach to failure analysis of ball bearings combining Principal Component Analysis and Fast Fourier Transform

• Emmanuel Ndongue Esseme ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Ndongue Esseme, Thomas Florent Kanaa

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Higher Technical Teacher’s Training College, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

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• Thomas Florent Kanaa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Ndongue Esseme, Thomas Florent Kanaa

  Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: tkanaa@yahoo.fr

  Affiliations Laboratory of Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Higher Technical Teacher’s Training College, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon, Laboratory of Mechanics and Materials, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Higher Technical Teacher’s Training College, University of Ebolowa, Ebolowa, Cameroon, Laboratory of Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics and Signal Processing, Department of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering, National Advanced School of Engineering of Yaounde, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7058-4607

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• Thérèse Jacquie Ngo Bissé ,

  Roles Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ TJNB, MJPP, LN, and ET are also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Laboratory of Mechanics and Materials, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Higher Technical Teacher’s Training College, University of Ebolowa, Ebolowa, Cameroon, Cameroonian Association for Research and Innovation in Energy, Technology and Environment, Ebolowa, Ebolowa, Cameroon

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• Mathieu Jean Pierre Pesdjock ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  ¶‡ TJNB, MJPP, LN, and ET are also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Cameroonian Association for Research and Innovation in Energy, Technology and Environment, Ebolowa, Ebolowa, Cameroon

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• Ludovic Ngongang ,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TJNB, MJPP, LN, and ET are also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Laboratory of Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Higher Technical Teacher’s Training College, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon, Laboratory of Mechanics and Materials, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Higher Technical Teacher’s Training College, University of Ebolowa, Ebolowa, Cameroon

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• Emmanuel Tonye

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation

  ¶‡ TJNB, MJPP, LN, and ET are also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics and Signal Processing, Department of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering, National Advanced School of Engineering of Yaounde, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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