Contact stress and rolling contact fatigue of indented contacts: Part II, rolling element bearing life calculation and experimental data of indent geometries

Nans Biboulet (1) , Luc Houpert (2) , A.A. Lubrecht (1) , Carl Hager (3)

1 LaMCoS - Laboratoire de Mécanique des Contacts et des Structures [Villeurbanne]
2 Timken Europe, Colmar
3 Timken USA, Canton

This article presents a brief overview of how the stress risk integrals of indented contacts are combined to calculate a rolling element bearing life and some experimental data concerning measured indentation. The possibility of predicting surface indentation and bearing life from normalized contamination standards is discussed.

Domaines: Mécanique [physics.med-ph]

Nans Biboulet, Luc Houpert, A.A. Lubrecht, Carl Hager. Contact stress and rolling contact fatigue of indented contacts: Part II, rolling element bearing life calculation and experimental data of indent geometries. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology, 2013, 227 (4), pp.327 - 335. ⟨10.1177/1350650112462955⟩. ⟨hal-00761076⟩