Abstract
IN hardened steels, sliding friction increases the tendency of loaded line contacts to suffer surface fatigue1, which can lead to pitting. This note describes an apparatus to study this effect in point contact and gives the first results.
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DIACONESCU, E., KERRISON, G. & CAMERON, A. Effect of sliding on surface fatigue. Nature 248, 669–670 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/248669a0
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