Rolling contact fatigue performance of vibro-mechanical textured surfaces

Aaron Greco; Ashlie Martini; Yuchuan Liu; Chih Lin; Qian J. Wang

doi:10.1080/10402000903518861

Rolling contact fatigue performance of vibro-mechanical textured surfaces

Aaron Greco^*, Ashlie Martini, Yuchuan Liu, Chih Lin, Qian J. Wang

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Mechanical Engineering

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The rolling contact fatigue (RCF) performance of vibro-mechanical textured surfaces in a point elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) condition is investigated. Two dimple designs, small (100 μm × 100 μm) and large (240 μm × 100 μm), are compared with a nontextured sample. Experimental RCF tests show that the textured surfaces exhibit a significantly reduced number of cycles to failure compared with the nontextured sample for the high load, pure rolling conditions evaluated. In order to understand these results, numerical models are used to calculate the lubrication and contact pressure conditions and the subsurface stress distribution. The fatigue failure trends observed experimentally are compared with the simulation results with good agreement. It is determined that RCF performance is related to the presence and size of the generated dimple.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	610-620
Number of pages	11
Journal	Tribology Transactions
Volume	53
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10402000903518861
State	Published - Jul 2010

Keywords

Rolling-Contact Fatigue
Surface Modification
Vibro-Mechanical Texturing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering
Surfaces and Interfaces
Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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