Ceramic bearing development, Volume 2. Development of surface acoustic wave NDE for silicon nitride balls. Interim report, 1 July 1992-1 October 1994
The Major Objective of the Development of a Surface Acoustic Wave Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Technique for Silicon Nitride Balls was to improve hybrid bearing reliability by the elimination of critical size flaws that cause early failures. A Surface Acoustic Wave NDE technique was developed for Norton Advanced Ceramics NBD-200 silicon nitride balls. System performance was verified on balls with both natural and artificial flaws. A production lot of NBD-200 balls was tested using this method. The production lot was sorted for fatigue testing at 2.9 MPa (420 KSI) contact stress at The Timken Co. Results suggest that the technique can readily identify certain life limiting flaws. However, fatigue testing of balls inspected with this technique showed no improvement in reliability.
- Research Organization:
- Norton Advanced Ceramics, East Granby, CT (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 442285
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-317379/6/XAB; CNN: Contract F33615-92-C-5917; TRN: 70340137
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Mar 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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