Cavitation and rolling wear in silicon nitride

Ceramics International

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1373-1381

  Karunamurthy, B ^a   Hadfield, M ^a   Vieillard, C ^b   Morales Espejel, G E ^b   Khan, Z ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SKF ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cavitation erosion; Rolling contact; Silicon nitride; Wear

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CAVITATIONS; CAVITATION EROSION; COMBINED EFFECT; CONTROLLED CAVITATIONS; MATERIAL DAMAGES; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; ROLLING CONTACT; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE; ROLLING CONTACTS; ROLLING WEAR; SHORT PERIODS; SILICON NITRIDE ROLLING ELEMENTS; TESTING CONDITIONS; TESTING METHODOLOGY; TRIBOMETERS;

CAVITATION; FATIGUE DAMAGE; SILICON NITRIDE;

FRICTION;

EID: 77950527192     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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