Bolted joints may suffer from fretting damage which can significantly decrease fatigue life. A
testing arrangement was developed to study the effect of different operating and design …

An experimental investigation on the fretting wear of Ti–6Al–4V was conducted using a self-
designed test machine. The wear morphologies and the cracking phenomena of as-received …

The shrink-fit connection undergoes fretting fatigue at the edge of the contact, where both
stress concentration and micro-slip take place. A fretting test set-up with a round-shaped …

Fretting may cause severe surface damage and lead to unexpected fatigue failure. Our test
apparatus was designed based on reciprocating, large, annular flat-on-flat contact without …

Fatigue, popularly metal fatigue, is a primary cause of failure of structural engineering
components. Cracks may freely initiate, but this is rare unless the metal (alloy) is of poor …

Fretting fatigue may lead to severe damage in machines. Adhesive material transfer spots in
millimeter scale have previously been observed on fretted surfaces, which have been …

In this paper, we use the singular terms in Williams' solution to quantify the behaviour at the
edge of a complete (ie sharp edged) contact. To do this, we define two alternative …

We review the representation of fretting fatigue crack nucleation sites by simple asymptotic
forms and show that the multipliers on these fields produce very satisfactory quantifiers of …

The effect of contact edge geometry on the fretting fatigue behavior of a complete contact
was studied with 34CrNiMo6 quenched and tempered steel. The contact geometries …

Fretting is a consequence of small relative oscillatory movement between contacting parts
and can cause serious damage to machine components. This paper describes the …