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Contact stress and rolling contact fatigue of indented contacts: Part II,rolling element bearing life calculation and experimental data of indent geometries
This article presents a brief overview of how the stress risk integrals of indented contacts are combined to calculate a rolling element bearing life and some experimental data concerning measured indentation. The possibility of predicting surface indentation and bearing life from normalized contamination standards is discussed.
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