Stress field evolution in a ball bearing raceway fatigue spall

Journal of ASTM International

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Branch, Nathan A ^a   Arakere, Nagaraj K ^a   Svendsen, Vaughn ^b   Forster, Nelson H ^b  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bearing steels; Contact mechanics; Elastic plastic finite element analysis; Gas jet turbines; Impact wear; Residual stresses; Rolling contact fatigue; Rolling element bearings; Spall propagation; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

BEARING STEELS; CONTACT MECHANICS; ELASTIC-PLASTIC FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMPACT WEAR; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE; ROLLING ELEMENT BEARING;

BALL BEARINGS; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CRACKS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRICTION; MECHANICS; PLASTICS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SPHERES; STEEL METALLURGY; TURBINES; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77949812232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1546962X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/JAI102529     Document Type: Article

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