Assessment of natural crack initiation and its propagation in slow speed bearings

Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 261-275

  Elforjani, M ^a   Mba, D ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Bearing life and natural crack initiation; Condition monitoring; Source location

Indexed keywords

AE SIGNALS; BEARING LIFE AND NATURAL CRACK INITIATION; CHARACTERISATION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; NATURAL CRACKS; NATURAL DEFECT; NATURAL DEGRADATION; ROLLING ELEMENT BEARING; SOURCE LOCATION; SUB-SURFACES;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTICS; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CRACK DETECTION; CRACK INITIATION; CRACKS; DEGRADATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MACHINERY; ROLLING; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONDITION MONITORING;

EID: 70349748461     PISSN: 10589759     EISSN: 14772671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10589750802339687     Document Type: Article

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