... Rolling bearings are rated for their capabilities to withstand rolling contact fatigue. All other means of bearing failure are considered preventable through proper attention to bearing manufacture, mounting, lubrication, and minimization of contaminant ingress. The standard methods...

... results comparing two similar testers are presented for both steel and ceramic. rolling contact fatigue bearing element tester rolling bearings bearing steels Douglas Glover^ A Ball-Rod Rolling Contact Fatigue Tester REFERENCE: Glover, Douglas, "A Ball-Rod RoUiiig Contact Fatigue Tester...

... Specially developed machines for fatigue testing of rolling bearing steels frequently operate at stresses higher than the elastic limit, have contact conditions that differ widely from those in practice, or require special expensive test pieces. An alternative view is that standard bearings...

... Extensive realistic tests to determine rolling bearing life have previously indicated that the exponent p in the well-known formula L n = ( C/P ) p is a constant, and various institutes of technology have agreed that for ball bearings in particular this constant p = 3. Acceptance...