SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1982
STP36140S

Experience of Element and Full-Bearing Testing of Materials over Several Years

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A review is made of several years' experience in determining quantitatively the influence of material and production processes on the fatigue performance of rolling element bearings. This experience covers bearing testing and two different “element” test methods—the radial ball bearing with cylindrical inner ring and the thrust ball bearing with flat washer methods.

So far, it has been difficult to correlate the results from those element tests with results obtained from full-bearing tests. This is due to the special features of the concentrated point contacts between the balls and nonconforming surfaces used in the element methods. These features are an apparently random groove formation and a material transformation and failure mode different from those of normal bearings.

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Johnston, GB
SKF Engineering and Research Centre B. V., Nieuwegein, Netherlands
Andersson, T
SKF Engineering and Research Centre B. V., Nieuwegein, Netherlands
Amerongen, Ev
SKF Engineering and Research Centre B. V., Nieuwegein, Netherlands
Voskamp, A
SKF Engineering and Research Centre B. V., Nieuwegein, Netherlands
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Developed by Committee: A01
Pages: 190–205
DOI: 10.1520/STP36140S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-4836-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-0712-0