Feature extraction of acoustic emission signals in diamond scratching of brittle materials based on shift-invariant sparse coding

This paper is dedicated to feature extraction of acoustic emission (AE) signals from machining hard brittle materials. A diamond intender is used to scratch BK7 and sapphire. Typical characteristics of AE signals from the two materials of are all concentrated in [100-200]KHz frequency span, and band-filtered signals represent obvious local burst-type waveforms, which is closely related to the crack and fragmentation phenomena that occur when brittle material is removed. Locations and oscillation form of burst-type AE are useful information for process monitoring and quality prediction of machined surface. In order to acquire the information, the theory of shift-invariant sparse coding(SISC) is introduced to analysis AE RMS signals. Experimental results of the two typical hard brittle materials show that oscillation form and locations of burst-type AE can be sparsely expressed by a self-learned atom and the corresponding coefficients. From the aspects of machining process monitoring, taking burst-type AE event as a monitor parameter is more accurate and objective in the reflection of locations and scales of cracks on the machined surface induced by machining.