E Hart, B Clarke, G Nicholas… - Wind Energy …, 2020 - wes.copernicus.org
This paper presents a review of existing theory and practice relating to main bearings for wind turbines. The main bearing performs the critical role of supporting the turbine rotor, with …
NK Arakere - International Journal of Fatigue, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …
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 …
J Guan, L Wang, C Zhang, X Ma - Tribology International, 2017 - Elsevier
The crack propagation in bearing steel with a non-metallic inclusion is analyzed by Voronoi finite element method. The load applied on the Voronoi finite element model is obtained by …
The continuing improvement on the power density, loading capacity and fatigue life of gear transmissions used in industrial machineries such as in the aerospace, wind turbine and …
J Guan, L Wang, Z Zhang, X Shi, X Ma - Tribology International, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the crack nucleation and crack propagation induced by a cluster of carbides. The morphology of the carbides is extracted from scanning electron microscope …
H He, H Liu, C Zhu, J Tang - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2019 - Elsevier
The fatigue failures of gears have great influence on lifetime and reliabilities of mechanical transmissions. Initial residual stress (IRS) induced in the manufacturing process, together …
Fatigue failure in rolling element bearings (REBs) is a highly stochastic process influenced by the anisotropy of bearing material and the coupled elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) …