The premature failure of wind turbine gearbox bearings significantly affects the reliability of wind turbine operation and energy production. Damage initiated from non-metallic …
This article discusses the effects of various steels and lubricants on subsurface microstructural changes during a high-frequency dynamic pin-on-disc test under pure sliding …
Wear due to sliding is an inevitable problem in many engineering applications. Protective surface coating is usually used to mitigate this problem. The development in this field is …
This paper presents an investigation of the influence of various tribological parameters on surface initiated damage through Rolling Sliding Tests (RSTs) using bearing steel …
Wind turbine gearbox (WTG) undergoes various and extreme operational conditions during the designed operational life of 20~ 25 years. Reliability analysis data shows that the …