RGL Associates visited the University of Leicester’s Department of Engineering recently to review progress on 2 final year projects with the supervisor Dr Simon Gill. RGL suggested topics for [...]
Rolling bearings and gears may suffer from surface and sub-surface initiated fatigue, termed “spalling” for bearings and “pitting” for gears. Life estimation for rolling bearings assumes the [...]
Bearings in wind turbines are subjected to both steady and dynamic loads during normal operation, but especially due to turbulence and wind shear that give rise to significant dynamic loads. [...]
White etching cracking and white structure flaking has afflicted wind turbine gearbox bearings for a number of years and root causes have not been definitively determined despite efforts by many [...]