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Structural Engineering and Mechanics
  Volume 53, Number 2, January25 2015 , pages 325-336
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2015.53.2.325
 


Study of ball bearing fatigue damage using vibration analysis: application to thrust ball bearings
Toumi M.Yessine, Bolaers Fabricea, Bogard Fabienb, Murer Sebastien

 
Abstract
    This paper presents a study based on the damage due to the fatigue life of thrust ball bearings using vibratory analysis. The main contribution of this work lies in establishing a relation between modal damping and the rolling contact fatigue damage of the thrust ball bearing. Time domain signals and frequency spectra are extracted from both static and dynamic experiments. The first part of this research consists in measuring the damping of damaged thrust ball bearings using impact hammer characterization tests. In a second part, indented components representing spalled bearings are studied to determine the evolution of damping values in real-time vibration spectra using the random decrement method. Dynamic results, in good agreement with static tests, show that damping varies depending on the component
 
Key Words
    rolling fatigue contact; modal damping; thrust ball bearing; modal analysis
 
Address
Toumi M.Yessine, Bolaers Fabricea, Bogard Fabienb, Murer Sebastien: GRESPI/MAN, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles,Campus du Moulin de la Housse -51687 Reims Cedex 2, France
 

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