I recently came across an explanation that attributed a behavior (corrosion fatigue, if you must know) to the formation of "divacancies". Wiktionary defines a divacancy as:
A pair of vacancy defects in a crystal.
I am a member of ASM and a search through the journals available on their...
I have a metal on metal dry rolling contact application. An example of what I am talking about is a railroad wheel on a steel rail.
We have built several of these machines over the years, and I have some historical data from them, but I want to know if I am being overly conservative.
I am...
I am searching for additional information dealing with the allowable design loads for dry rolling contact fatigue. One of my specific applications is like a rotary kiln (i.e. - flat roller on flat tyre).
