White-Etching Matter in Bearing Steel. Part I: Controlled Cracking of 52100 Steel

A Study of White Etching Areas in an Annealed 52100 Steel through High Pressure Torsion Processes

INTRODUCTION White Structure Flaking (WSF) is a type of surface damage responsible for some early failures in wind turbine gearbox bearings. WSF has been associated with microstructural changes registered close to the damaged surface that appear to be white after etching, hence the name White Etching Areas (WEAs). Local hydrogen liberation from lubricants [2] and adiabatic shear bands [3] have...

Design aspects of steel I-girders with corrugated steel webs

Corrugated web girders represent a new structural system emerged in the past two decades. The girder’s flanges provide the flexural strength of the girder with no contribution from the corrugated web which provides the girder’s shear capacity. Failure of the web occurs by steel yielding, web buckling or interactively between them. Lateral torsion and local flange buckling of corrugated web gird...

Effect of Nonmetallic Inclusions on Steel Welds Metal Hot Cracking

B. Z orc, W elding I nstitute, L jubljana, S lovenia; M . I mamović, Un iversity of Zenica, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Zenica, B a nd H; A. Nagode, B. Kosec, L. Kosec, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia; A. Stoić, I. Samardžić, University of Osijek, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Slavonski Brod, Croatia Intercrystally distributed n...

Steel Reinforcement Effectiveness to Combat Reflective Cracking in Rehabilitation Applications

Sulfide Stress Cracking Behavior of a Martensitic Steel Controlled by Tempering Temperature

A medium-carbon Cr-Mo-V martensitic steel was thermally processed by quenching (Q) at 890 °C and tempering (T) at increasing temperatures from 650 °C to 720 °C and the effect of tempering temperature, Tt, on sulfide stress cracking (SSC) behaviors was estimated mainly via double cantilever beam (DCB) and electrochemical hydrogen permeation (EHP) tests and microstructure characterization. The re...