Rolling contact fatigue of case carburized steels.pdf

International Journal of Fatigue 95 (2017) 264–281 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect International Journal of Fatigue journal homepage: /locate/ijfatigue Rolling contact fatigue of case carburized steels Aditya A. Walvekar, Farshid Sadeghi ? Purdue University, School of Mechanical Engineering, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA article info Article history: Received 9 June 2016 Received in revised form 31 October 2016 Accepted 2 November 2016 Available online 4 November 2016 Keywords: Rolling contact fatigue Case carburized Damage mechanics Voronoi tessellation Plasticity abstract Case carburized steels are widely used in high performance ball and rolling element bearings. They are characterized by the hardened exterior and gradient in the material properties as a function of depth. In this investigation, an elastic-plastic ?nite element model based on micro-indentation tests was developed to investigate the rolling contact fatigue of case carburized steels. A series of micro-indentation tests were conducted to obtain the hardness gradient in the case carburized 8620 steel. The results demonstrated that the hardness varies linearly from the surface to the core of the material. The ?nite element modeling approach employs Mises based plasticity model with kinematic hardening to incorporate the effect of material plasticity. The hardness gradient in the material was modeled by changing the yield strength as a function of depth. Linear relationship between hardness and yield strength was assumed. The FE model was coupled with continuum damage mechanics approach to capture material degradation due to fatigue damage. It considers both; stress and accumulated plastic strain based damage evolution laws for fatigue failure initiation and propagation. The residual stress distribution due to carburization process was modeled by modifying the damage evolution law. Material dependent parameters used in the damage evolution laws were determined using the SN results for torsion