A Study on the Failure Mode of the Rolling Bearing with Defective Balls

  • Hyun, J.S. (FAG-Hanwha Bearings Corporation) ;
  • Park, T.J. (School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, ReCAPT, Gyeongsang National University)
  • 발행 : 2002.10.21

초록

In this paper, the endurance life of the rolling bearings with defective balls and their failure (flaking) phenomena are presented. It was found that the lives of ball bearings with defective balls were shorter than that of calculated L10 life as well as that of normal bearings in spite of the using standard bearing components. Although the bearings were assembled with defective balls, whereas the other parts were qualified new ones, the main failures were occurred on the inner ring raceways. Moreover, the failures were on the center of the groove curvature and the severity of failure is similar to the order of initial defect depth of the balls. These shows that the defects on the bearings can affect the life of tribologically contacted mating parts.

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