Empirical stress intensity factors for surface cracks under rolling contact fatigue

Tribology Transactions

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 621-629

  Levesque, George ^a   Arakere, Nagaraj K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ball Bearings; Ceramics; Contact Mechanics; Fatigue Crack Propagation; Finite Element Analysis; Rolling Contact Fatigue; Semi Elliptical Crack; Silicon Nitride Balls; Stress Analysis; Stress Intensity Factor

Indexed keywords

CERAMICS; CONTACT MECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE; SEMI-ELLIPTICAL CRACK; SILICON NITRIDE BALLS;

ASPECT RATIO; BALL BEARINGS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; CURVE FITTING; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE DAMAGE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; MECHANICS; ROLLER BEARINGS; ROLLING; SILICON NITRIDE; SPHERES; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; SURFACE DEFECTS; SURFACES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CRACKS;

EID: 79953316244     PISSN: 10402004     EISSN: 1547397X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10402001003642759     Document Type: Article

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