Fretting Wear Failures In Bearing Steel EN31 （在轴承钢EN31接触磨损故障）.pdf

Fretting Wear Failures In Bearing Steel EN31 Mated Against Structural Steel EN 24 R Ramesh and R Gnanamoorthy Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras CHENNAI 600 036 ABSTRACT Bearings fitted in the machines and automobiles experience fretting action due to machine vibration and other external forces during service. Fretting is a form of surface damage encountered in the machine components which experience small oscillatory movements. An attempt is made to understand fretting in bearing steels. A fretting wear test machine is designed and developed as a part of the current research program. The friction force, slip amplitude and frequency are continuously measured and recorded using the computer controlled data acquisition system. Fretting wear behavior of the commonly used structural steel En 24 in the as received and hardened-tempered condition mated with the hardened-tempered bearing steel En 31 are reported. The coefficient of friction increased drastically during the early stages of fretting due to the oxide layer contact and breaking of the oxide layer. Hardening plays only a marginal role in improving the fretting wear in the test conditions investigated. INTRODUCTION Small relative motion of the order of few tens of microns normally encountered many joints in machineries is termed as fretting. The fretting wear was frequently observed in keys, splines, bearing inner race and shaft, bearing outer race and housing, multiplayer leaf springs, lugs, hub and shaft, pinned joints, flanges, turbine blade roots, blotted and riveted joints etc,. More than fifty