Abstract
High-carbon high-strength JIS-SUJ2 bearing steel is one of the alloys used as rolling contact applications which need high wear resistance. This high hardness material is broken from non-metallic inclusions under fatigue stress. In this work, we developed a new observation method “fracture surface etching (FSE)” in order to observe the material microstructure on the fracture surface. We succeeded to draw clear grain boundaries on the fracture surfaces and closely observed the material microstructure around the crack origins by the FSE method. We concluded that the crack initiation area boundary is not formed by only the grain boundary, and the grain size around the Al2O3 inclusion on the fracture surface was similar to that of the flat surface which does not have inclusions before fatigue testing.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science
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