Abstract: Ball and rolling element bearings are perhaps the most widely used components in industrial machinery. They are used to support load and allow relative motion inherent in the mechanism to take ...

Abstract: Inclusions are common in bearing materials and are a primary site for subsurface fatigue crack initiation in rolling element bearings. This paper presents a new approach for computing the ...

Abstract: A new approach for modeling fretting wear in a Hertzian line contact is presented. The combined finite-discrete element method (FDEM) in which multiple finite element bodies interact as distinct ...