Rolling contact fatigue and life prediction model of bearing steel
LÜ Hao-tian1,2, YANG Liang1,2, CHEN Hao1,2, CUI Yi-nan3,4, FU Han-wei5, ZHANG Chi1,2
1. Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education, Beijing 100084, China; 2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; 3. Key Laboratory of Applied Mechanics of Ministry of Education, Beijing 100084, China; 4. School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; 5. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Abstract：Bearings are amongst the most vital steel components in the modern industry, and the main failure mode of bearings is the rolling contact fatigue (RCF) in the subsurface. In order to better understand the RCF failure process of bearing steel, the rolling contact fatigue process of bearing steel from two aspects of mechanics and materials science was first described, proposing that the essence of RCF process was a subsurface microstructural alternation process caused by the interaction between dislocation and carbon atoms. Then it introduced the engineering model and theoretical model for predicting the RCF life of bearings, pointing out that the combination of engineering models and theoretical models along with the combination of microstructural alternations under cyclic loading and RCF life were two important directions for future work. Finally, the problem of whole-process and multi-scale design for bearing steel was prospected, and the important work ideas of coupling physical metallurgy algorithms with artificial intelligence algorithms as well as multidisciplinary intersection were put forward.
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