Abstract

To study the mechanism of rolling contact fatigue failure, annealed thermally refined 0.43% carbon steel and case-hardened nickel chromium steel rollers were tested under conditions of pure rolling and sliding/rolling. The failure mechanism was examined by fractographic observation and by calculation of the amplitudes of the ratio of stress to strength. It was found that pitting cracks initiated on the roller surface and were induced by the normal stress in the circumferential direction of the roller or by the maximum principal stress. Spalling cracks initiated beneath the surface and were induced by the orthogonal shear stress.

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