Pitting Life Experiments of Gear Material using a Damaged Area Analysis Method

피팅 파손면적분석기법을 이용한 기어재의 피팅 수명 실험

  • Joo, Jin-Wook (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Lee, Byung-Wook (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Moon, Seok-Man (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Kim, Tae-Wan (Department of Mechanical Engineering, PuKyong National Univ.) ;
  • Cho, Yong-Joo (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National Univ.)
  • Received : 2010.08.16
  • Accepted : 2010.09.24
  • Published : 2010.11.01

Abstract

The object of this study is to investigate the definite method for pitting damaged surfaces. Pitting is a sort of fatigue damages and it is made by a repetitive load. For a judgment between damages or not, sensing vibrations of test equipment is simple. However, it is not only difficult to observe a growth of pitting but also impossible to detect the juncture of initial pitting. Therefore, a method for the pitting damaged area measuring technique was effectively implemented by Two Roller Machine. The change of surface damaged area was measured by an optical microscope in regular time and calculated by the use of dark and bright ratio of test specimens' pictures taken by optical microscope. In conclusion, S - N Curves gained by Failure rate - Cycle graph was led and the curves are able to be chosen as occasion demands for a failure area percentage.

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