Wear mechanisms in microfabricated ball bearing systems

Wear

Volumn 326-327, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-9

  Hanrahan, Brendan ^a,b   Misra, Saswat ^a   Waits, C Mike ^b   Ghodssi, Reza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bearings; Galling; Micro abrasion; Rolling friction; Surface analysis

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; BALL BEARINGS; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; MICROFABRICATION; SURFACE ANALYSIS; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

BEARING PLATFORM; GALLING; INDUCED PHASE CHANGE; MATERIALS SYSTEMS; MICROABRASION; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; ROLLING FRICTION; TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

TRIBOLOGY;

EID: 84922966869     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2014.12.032     Document Type: Article

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