Fatigue failure of all-steel and steel-silicon nitride rolling ball combinations

Wear

Volumn 271, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 2471-2476

  Mosleh, Mohsen ^a   Bradshaw, Keron ^a   Belk, John H ^b   Waldrop, John C ^b  

^a School of Engineering   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Four ball tester; Hybrid bearing; Rolling contact fatigue

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE FAILURES; FOUR-BALL; HYBRID BEARINGS; ROLLING BALLS; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE; ROLLING SYSTEM; ROTATIONAL SPEED; STEEL BEARINGS; STEEL COMPONENTS;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRICTION; HYBRID MATERIALS; SILICON NITRIDE; TOOL STEEL;

SPHERES;

EID: 79960689553     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2010.12.051     Document Type: Article

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