Current Research
Non-Contact Stress Measurements Using Thermo-Elasticity Analyses
Principal Investigator:
Graduate Student(s):
Erci Planting
Rohit Parvataneni
Sponsor(s):
Timken
Brief abstract:
This project aims at developing a non-contact stress-strain measurements of small bearing cages under operation. the project utilizes the thermo-elasticity principles to correlate the temperature maps under cyclic loadings with the stress behavior of the heat affected zone of bearing cages.
Impact:
Accurate predictions of the stress fields of bearing cages helps in establishing their failure stress and understand their behavior at the heat affected zone.
Project schedule:
Initiated and completed in 2009
Publications:
Planting, E., Zhou, Y., Nakagawa, J., Omar, M., “Thermo-elastic analysis of a bearing cage heat affected zone” Submitted to the Journal of Quantitative Infrared Thermography QIRT (2010)
