Modelling and full-scale trials to investigate fluid pressurisation of rolling contact fatigue cracks

Wear

Volumn 265, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1317-1324

  Fletcher, D I ^a   Hyde, P ^a   Kapoor, A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cracks; Experiments; Fluid pressure; Modelling; Rolling contact fatigue; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); ECOLOGY; FLUIDS; FORECASTING; FRICTION; GROWTH RATE; RAILS; STEEL METALLURGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WHEELS;

APPLIED (CO); CONTACT LOADING; CRACK GROWTH; CRACK GROWTH RATES; CRACK SIZES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FIELD MEASUREMENTS; FLUID FILLED CRACK; FLUID PENETRATION; FULL-SCALE TRIALS; HIGH GROWTH RATES; RAIL WHEEL CONTACT; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE (RCF); SHEAR MODES; STRESS INTENSITY; SURFACE-BREAKING CRACKS; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); THREE-DIMENSIONAL MORPHOLOGY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2-D) MODELING; WEAR RATES;

CRACKS;

EID: 48049113473     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2008.02.025     Document Type: Article

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