Rolling contact fatigue life and spall propagation of AISI M50, M50NiL, and AISI 52100, part I: Experimental results

Tribology Transactions

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-41

  Rosado, Lewis ^a   Forster, Nelson H ^a   Thompson, Kevin L ^a   Cooke, Jason W ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack propagation; Gas turbine engines; Hybrid ceramic bearings; Oil debris monitoring; Rolling contact fatigue; Rolling element bearings

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS MONITORING; GAS TURBINE ENGINE; HYBRID CERAMIC BEARINGS; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE; ROLLING ELEMENT BEARING; ROLLING ELEMENT BEARINGS;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CERAMIC MATERIALS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CRACK DETECTION; DEBRIS; EXPERIMENTS; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRICTION; GAS TURBINES; GROWTH (MATERIALS); NONMETALLIC BEARINGS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STEEL METALLURGY; TURBOMACHINERY; VALUE ENGINEERING;

BALL BEARINGS;

EID: 70949085735     PISSN: 10402004     EISSN: 1547397X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10402000903226366     Document Type: Article

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