Determination of rolling-element fatigue life from computer generated bearing tests

Tribology Transactions

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 479-493

  Vlcek, Brian L ^a   Hendricks, Robert C ^b   Zaretsky, Erwin V ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIFE PREDICTION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; ROLLING-ELEMENT BEARINGS; WEIBULL ANALYSIS; RADIAL LOADS;

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ROLLING; CORRELATION METHODS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LOAD TESTING; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; ROLLER BEARINGS;

LIFE PREDICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; ROLLING BEARING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0347592451     PISSN: 10402004     EISSN: 1547397X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10402000308982654     Document Type: Article

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