A study of the physical characteristics of vibration-induced fretting corrosion

IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 318-325

  Flowers, George T ^a   Xie, Fei ^a   Bozack, Michael J ^a   Hai, Xin ^a   Rickett, Bretton I ^b   Malucci, Robert D ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOLEX INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectors; Fretting corrosion; Random vibration

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; VIBRATION CONTROL;

AUTOMOTIVE CONNECTORS; MULTIFREQUENCY VIBRATION; RANDOM VIBRATION; VIBRATION-INDUCED FRETTING CORROSION;

FRETTING CORROSION;

EID: 33744793498     PISSN: 15213331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAPT.2006.875901     Document Type: Article

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