Sustainability through alloy design: Challenges and opportunities

JL Cann, A De Luca, DC Dunand, D Dye… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Exciting metallurgical breakthroughs of the last decades alongside the development and
wide-ranging availability of new and more capable experimental and theoretical tools for …

Bearings for aerospace applications

R Rejith, D Kesavan, P Chakravarthy, SVSN Murty - Tribology International, 2023 - Elsevier
Rolling element bearings are the most critical parts of any rotary mechanism. One of the
challenges in any bearing design is to minimize the friction and maximize life for a particular …

Low-oxygen rare earth steels

D Li, P Wang, XQ Chen, P Fu, Y Luan, X Hu, H Liu… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Rare earth (RE) addition to steels to produce RE steels has been widely applied when
aiming to improve steel properties. However, RE steels have exhibited extremely variable …

Investigation of damage mechanisms related to microstructural features of ferrite-cementite steels via experiments and multiscale simulations

H Wang, F Wang, D Qian, F Chen, Z Dong… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Spheroidized ferrite-cementite steel (SFC) is susceptible to micro-defects owing to the
mismatched deformation between the ferrite and cementite during cold forming, which …

Prevention of hydrogen embrittlement in steels

HKDH Bhadeshia - ISIJ international, 2016 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The essential facts about the nature of the hydrogen embrittlement of steels have now been
known for 140 years. It is diffusible hydrogen that is harmful to the toughness of iron. It …

Understanding the nanostructure evolution and the mechanical strengthening of the M50 bearing steel during ultrasonic shot peening

X Yue, S Hu, X Wang, Y Liu, F Yin, L Hua - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ultrasonic shot peening (USP) is a surface engineering technology used to enhance the
mechanical properties of the components during manufacturing. M50 steel is one of the …

Further understanding of rolling contact fatigue in rolling element bearings-a review

M El Laithy, L Wang, TJ Harvey, B Vierneusel… - Tribology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rolling bearings are one of the most widely used components in industrial machinery. If
suitably mounted, loaded, lubricated and isolated from contamination, rolling contact fatigue …

An updated review: white etching cracks (WECs) and axial cracks in wind turbine gearbox bearings

MH Evans - Materials Science and Technology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The actual service life of wind turbine gearboxes is often well below the desired 20 years.
One of the prevalent failure modes in gearbox bearing raceways is white structure flaking …

Cementite

H Bhadeshia - International Materials Reviews, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Cementite occurs in steels, in meteorites, possibly at the core of the Earth and has uses in its
pure form. It's composition can deviate from F e 3 C, but not by much because the Fe–C …

Enhanced strength and toughness of high nitrogen stainless bearing steel by controlling interstitial partitioning via V-microalloying

L Xia, H Li, H Feng, Z Jiang, H Zhu, S Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
High-nitrogen stainless bearing steel (HNSBS) with ultra-high tensile strength (∼ 2403
MPa) and good toughness (∼ 80.0 J) was obtained by V-microalloying, overcoming the …