Large-scale wind turbine bearings including main bearings, gearbox bearings, generator
bearings, blade bearings and yaw bearings, are critical components for wind turbines to …

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 …

随着航空, 风电, 重载车辆等装备对齿轮传动功率密度, 承载能力, 疲劳寿命要求的提高,
以微点蚀, 点蚀, 深层齿面断裂等多种形式存在的齿轮接触疲劳失效成为限制现代齿轮及装备 …

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 …

Presence of white etching cracks has been widely associated with early failures of rolling
bearings in a number of applications, with wind turbine gearbox bearings being the most …

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 …

Modern wind turbines operate in continuously transient conditions, with varying speed,
torque, and power based on the stochastic nature of the wind resource. This variability …

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 …