A coupled approach for rolling contact fatigue cracks in the hydrodynamic lubrication regime: The importance of fluid/solid interactions

Wear

Volumn 271, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 720-733

  Balcombe, Robbie ^a   Fowell, Mark T ^a   Olver, Andrew V ^a   Ioannides, Stathis ^b   Dini, Daniele ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SKF Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributed dislocations technique; Finite volume method; Fluid solid coupled interactions; Hydrodynamic lubrication; Lubricated cracks; Rolling contact fatigue

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DISLOCATIONS; FINITE VOLUME; HYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION; LUBRICATED CRACKS; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; CRACK TIPS; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRICTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LUBRICATION; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CRACKS;

EID: 79957996063     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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