Wear of steel in rolling contact with silicon nitride

Wear

Volumn 210, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 278-286

  Lakshminarayanan, R ^a   Chao, L Y ^a   Iyer, N ^a   Shetty, D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asperity contact; Boundary lubrication; Hybrid bearings; Rolling contact; Silicon nitride

Indexed keywords

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LUBRICATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON NITRIDE; SPALLING; STEEL; STRESSES; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

ASPERITY CONTACT; HERTZIAN CONTACT STRESS; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE TESTER;

BALL BEARINGS;

ROLLING CONTACT; SILICON NITRIDE; STEEL; WEAR;

EID: 0031229513     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(97)00077-X     Document Type: Article

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