Rolling contact fatigue failure modes of lubricated silicon nitride in relation to ring crack defects

Wear

Volumn 225-229, Issue PART II, 1999, Pages 1284-1292

  Wang, Y ^a   Hadfield, M ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Rolling contact fatigue; Silicon nitride; Surface crack defect

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CRACK PROPAGATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LUBRICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; ROLLER BEARINGS; STEEL;

ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE;

SILICON NITRIDE;

CRACK; FATIGUE; ROLLING CONTACT; SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 0033489880     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(98)00402-5     Document Type: Article

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