A dimensionless multi-size finite element model of a rolling contact fatigue crack

Wear

Volumn 258, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1265-1272

  Bogdanski, Stanislaw ^a   Trajer, Martin ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

FE contact stress analysis; Growth of RCF cracks; Rolling contact fatigue cracks; Stress intensity factors

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; LOADING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE ELEMENT (FE) MODELS; LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS (LEFM); ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE (RCF); SLOPE ANGLE;

CRACKS;

FATIGUE CRACK;

EID: 13844250298     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2004.03.036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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