FAILURE ANALYSIS GEARS-SHAFTS-BEARINGS-SEALS
Surface fatigue is the failure of a material as a result of repeated surface or sub-surface stresses beyond the endurance limit of the material. Figure 2.1 indicates the theoretical mutual Hertzian stresses occurring when a gear and pinion mesh. There are compressive stresses at the surface and unidirectional and bi-directional sub-surface ...
