A major cause of a surface damage of the contact loading machine components (bearings, gears, cams etc.) is the rolling contact fatigue, Various methods of condition monitoring are used to detect damage of these components or specimens in the industry or during testing in laboratories. In the past decades, the acoustic emission technique has been developed into useful condition monitoring method. This paper is focused on the testing of rolling contact fatigue of the metallic materials using acoustic emission method. The methodology of testing, experimenal test-rig and preliminary results, are presented in this paper. It can be concluded, that acoustic emission technique can be applied for more accurate rolling contact fatique evaluation of material. and Obsahuje seznam literatury
This paper describes some results of an experiment aimed at monitoring of contact fatigue during the axial bearings tests. The needful of AE set-up for measuring of signal and Axmat stand for testing is presented here. The measuring of some kind of bearings required the creation of new clamping elements (Segment and Bearing bush) to the existing key point of Axmat stand. The results in this paper show records in the time domain mainly for counts and events. These events are filtered by maximal amplitude for better response on signal changes during the lifetime record. For these evaluated records there are shown the final failures of tested bearings and possible causes of failures beginning. and Obsahuje seznam literatury