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

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 …

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 …

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 …

White etching cracks (WECs) and the associated white etching areas (WEAs) are
responsible for failure of widely spread engineering applications such as bearings and …

Premature failures associated with microstructural degradation, ie white etching cracks
(WECS), are becoming commonplace as applications are requiring tribological components …

The premature failures in wind turbine gearbox bearings are primarily caused by the decay
of subsurface microstructure called white etching areas and white etching cracks. Severe …

White etching areas (WEAs) and white etching cracks (WECs) are the catastrophic
premature failure modes associated with wind turbine gearbox bearings. Several drivers …

White etching cracking (WEC) is a subsurface bearing failure mechanism influenced by a
number of factors, including lubricant composition. Certain metal-containing lubricants have …

Abstract Machine tool bearings made of rare earth modified, highly clean bearing steel
subjected to rolling contact fatigue (RCF) under the same bench test conditions were …