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 …

The power generation from wind farms is growing very fast all over the world, and wind
energy is now playing the most significant role to aid sustainable development since the last …

Severe plastic deformation leads to cementite decomposition in pearlitic and martensitic
alloys, resulting in high-strength nanocrystalline ferrite. This effect can be employed to …

Subsurface crack networks surrounded by microstructural alterations, named as “White
Etching Cracks”(WEC), lead to wind turbine gearbox bearing (WTGB) premature failures …

White etching crack (WEC) formation beneath the contact surface in steel rolling element
bearings causes a premature wear failure mode called white structure flaking (WSF). The …

White structure flaking (WSF) as a premature wear failure mode in steel rolling element
bearings is caused by white etching cracks (WECs) formed in the 1 mm zone beneath the …

The formation of white etching cracks (WECs) in steel rolling element bearings can lead to
the premature rolling contact fatigue (RCF) failure mode called white structure flaking …

White etching cracks (WECs) have been identified as a dominant mode of premature failure
within wind turbine gearbox bearings. Though WECs have been reported in the field for over …

White etching cracks (WECs) have been identified as the dominant mechanism of premature
failure for bearings within wind turbine gearboxes. Though WECs have been observed in …

White etching cracks (WECs) have been identified as a main failure mode of wind turbine
gearbox bearings (WTGBs). This study reports an investigation of the destructive sectioning …