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Material Response to Rolling Contact Loading

This materials science study investigates how rolling contact in ball bearings causes microplastic deformation in steel, leading to crystallographic texture changes, residual stresses, and eventual fatigue failure. The term 'microplastic' in this paper refers to small-scale plastic deformation in metals and has no connection to environmental plastic pollution.

1985 Journal of Tribology 187 citations
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A 3D Finite Element Model of Rolling Contact Fatigue for Evolved Material Response and Residual Stress Estimation

This engineering study developed a 3D finite element model for rolling contact fatigue in steel bearings to predict residual stress and material hardening. It is a mechanical engineering paper not related to environmental microplastics.

2020 Tribology Letters 17 citations
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Analysis of fatigue crack initiation in cyclic microplasticity regime

This engineering study analyzed how fatigue cracks begin in metals under cyclic loading, focusing on microscale stress and material defects. It is a materials science paper not related to environmental microplastics.

2019 International Journal of Fatigue 20 citations
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New Methodology to Evaluate the Rolling Contact Fatigue Performance of Bearing Steels With Surface Dents: Application to 32CrMoV13 (Nitrided) and M50 Steels

This engineering study developed a method to evaluate how surface dents affect rolling contact fatigue in bearing steels, using indentation testing and two-disk fatigue experiments to compare different steel alloys. This is an industrial engineering study with no relevance to environmental microplastics.

2005 Journal of Tribology 43 citations
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Analysis of the Subsurface Volume of Differently Finished AISI 52100 by Cyclic Indentation and X‐Ray Diffraction

This study analyzed how different surface finishing processes affect fatigue behavior in roller bearing steel, finding that surface roughness and residual stress influence component lifetime. The research is focused on materials engineering and has limited direct relevance to microplastic pollution.

2021 steel research international 5 citations
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Chapter 13 | Rolling Contact Microstructural Alterations and Effect on Residual Stress and Fatigue Limit, “Butterflies,” Material Response Analysis, and Modeling of Rolling Contact Fatigue Life

This review examines rolling contact-induced microstructural alterations in bearing steels, including white etching 'butterfly' formations around nonmetallic inclusions, and analyzes their effects on residual stress distribution and fatigue life. The chapter synthesizes materials characterization and computational modeling approaches to understand and predict rolling contact fatigue failure mechanisms.

2022
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Crack nucleation using combined crystal plasticity modelling, high-resolution digital image correlation and high-resolution electron backscatter diffraction in a superalloy containing non-metallic inclusions under fatigue

This materials engineering study combined crystal plasticity modeling with high-resolution microscopy to understand how fatigue cracks form near non-metallic inclusions in nickel superalloys. The research addresses durability of industrial alloy components and is not related to microplastics research.

2016 Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 75 citations
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On Microplasticity-induced Fatigue Fracture and its Relation to Entropy

Researchers investigated the relationship between microplasticity and fatigue fracture in steel specimens under axial cyclic loading, using fatigue testing machines to identify the stress cycle point at which microplastic deformation becomes detectable and analyzing its relationship to entropy production.

2024 Journal of Physics Conference Series
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Tribological Aspects of Rolling Bearing Failures

This review covers the tribology (friction and wear science) of rolling element bearings, discussing failure modes and how material fatigue drives bearing lifespan predictions. This mechanical engineering study has no relevance to microplastics or environmental health.

2011 InTech eBooks 94 citations
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Influence of hard phase size and spacing on the fatigue crack propagation in tool steels—Numerical simulation and experimental validation

Not relevant to microplastics research; this paper investigates how carbide size and spacing in tool steel microstructures affects fatigue crack growth rate, with no connection to plastic pollution.

2023 Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures 6 citations
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Plastic intermittency during cyclic loading: From dislocation patterning to microcrack initiation

This physics study examines how dislocation patterns in metals under cyclic loading lead to fatigue crack initiation at the microscale. It is a materials science paper studying microscale plastic deformation in metals, unrelated to environmental microplastics.

2019 Physical Review Materials 24 citations
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Dislocation Arrangements and Cyclic Microplasticity Surrounding Stress Concentration in a Ni‐Based Single‐Crystal Superalloy

Not relevant to microplastics — this materials science study examines dislocation behavior and fatigue crack initiation in nickel-based single-crystal superalloys; 'microplasticity' here refers to microscale metal deformation, not plastic particles.

2023 Advanced Engineering Materials 9 citations