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The rolling bearing is a cyclic symmetrical structure that is stable under normal operating conditions. However, when the rolling bearing fails, its symmetry is destroyed, resulting in unstable performance and causing major accidents. If the performance of rolling bearings can be monitored and evaluated in real time, maintenance strategies can be implemented promptly. In this paper, by using wavelet packet energy entropy (WPEE), the early fault-free features of bearing and the failure samples of similar bearings are decomposed firstly, and the energy value is extracted as the original feature, simultaneously. Secondly, a radial basis function (RBF) neural network model is established by using early fault-free features and similar bearing failure characteristics. The bearing full-life data characteristics of the extracted features are added into the RBF model in an iterative manner to obtain performance degradation Indicator. Boxplot was introduced as an adaptive threshold method to determine the failure threshold. Finally, the results are verified by empirical mode decomposition and Hilbert envelope demodulation. A bearing accelerated life experiment is performed to validate the feasibility and validity of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the method can diagnose early fault points in time and evaluate the degree of bearing degradation, which is of great significance for industrial practical applications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym11081064","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,21]],"date-time":"2019-08-21T11:19:06Z","timestamp":1566386346000},"page":"1064","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Evaluation of Rolling Bearing Performance Degradation Using Wavelet Packet Energy Entropy and RBF Neural Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4749-8761","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianmin","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechatronics &amp; Vehicle Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2526-1587","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Faling","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechatronics &amp; Vehicle Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China"}]},{"given":"Chenchen","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechatronics &amp; Vehicle Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China"}]},{"given":"Long","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechatronics &amp; Vehicle Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China"}]},{"given":"Peng","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechatronics &amp; Vehicle Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"252","article-title":"A summary of fault modelling and predictive health monitoring of rolling element bearings","volume":"60","author":"Jantunen","year":"2015","journal-title":"Mech. 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