Grade-life was used to describe rolling bearing's service life
showing the entire service life is divided into four stages: good bearing condition
initial defect condition
damaged bearing condition and upcoming failure condition;an assessment model was presented for bearing's grade-life.Signal feature extraction and pattern recognition algorithm were crucial to construct the model.Vibration signals of the rolling bearing were analyzed
and the wavelet packet analysis theory was adopted to extract the grade-life characteristics.Through signal reconfiguration with wavelet package to extract energy feature of various frequency bands acting as the life feature vector
the support vector machine was used to realize the mapping between the grade-life vector and the grade-life of rolling bearing
and the model of establishing the identification model by using bearing test stand run-to-failure data as learning samples was employed.The validity and creditability of model has been demonstrated by bearing test stands.