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Fatigue characteristics of bearing steel in very high cycle fatigue

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Very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) tests were carried out to find the fatigue characteristics of a super-long life range by using a cantilever type rotational bending fatigue test machine on three kinds of specimens in bearing steel which were quenched and tempered in air (A: non-shot peened and B: shot peened after heat treatment) and under vacuum environment(C: non-shot peened) in this study. S-N curves obtained from the VHCF tests of the B and C specimens tend to come down again in the super-long life (109 cycles) range due to fish-eye type cracking, while most of the A and B specimens were fractured by surface defects such as scratches and slip lines. This duplex S-N behavior of bearing steel has to be reviewed by the change of the fracture modes.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 1370, Sankyuk-Dong, Buk-gu, Daegu, 702-701, Korea

    Chang-Min Suh

  2. Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8603, Japan

    Jong-Hyoung Kim

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This paper was recommended for publication in revised form by Associate Editor Youngseog Lee

Chang-Min Suh received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Busan Na-tional University in 1964 and 1968, respectively, and received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1981. He now is a professor at Kyungpook National University. He has served as the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Kyungpook National University, a Visiting Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in Univ. of California Berkeley, a Head of the Institute of Engineering Design Technology Kyungpook Nat’l Univ, and a Head of the Technology Innovation Center designated by the Department of Commerce and Industry of Korea.

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Suh, CM., Kim, JH. Fatigue characteristics of bearing steel in very high cycle fatigue. J Mech Sci Technol 23, 420–425 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-008-1104-3

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