Rolling element bearings (REBs) play a most critical role in various industrial machinery. A
clearly and in-depth understanding of vibration characteristics of REBs is very helpful for …

Modern bearing steels are critically important ultra-high strength structural materials used in
a multitude of industrial systems, and subject to the highest loading conditions for billions of …

Starting about 1920 it becomes easier to track the growth of bearing materials technology.
Until 1955, with few exceptions, comparatively little progress was made in this area. AISI …

This work presents an improved probabilistic continuum damage mechanics (CDM) finite
element (FE) model to simulate the degradation of material as a function of cycle in order to …

In this study, a three-dimensional (3D) continuum damage mechanics (CDM) finite element
(FE) model was developed to investigate the effects of fretting wear on rolling contact fatigue …

The rolling elements bearings are widely used in industrial and domestic machines. The
existence of even tiny defects on the mating surfaces of the bearing components can lead to …

Non-metallic inclusions such as sulfides and oxides are byproducts of the bearing steel
manufacturing process. Stress concentrations due to such inclusions can originate cracks …

A 3D finite element model was developed to investigate the influence of microstructure
topology on the stochastic nature of rolling contact fatigue. Grains of the material …

This paper presents a novel approach to model the effects of surface roughness on fatigue
of tensile specimens. Voronoi tessellation was employed to simulate material microstructure …

Rolling contact fatigue (RCF) is the primary mode of fatigue failure in well-lubricated rolling
element bearings. Typical fatigue failures in bearings are characterized by microcrack …