various carbon levels
Rolling-Contact Fatigue. Powder forged materials have been used in bearing applications. Rolling-contact fatigue
testing is an accelerated bearing test used to rank materials with respect to potential performance in bearing applications.
Rolling-contact fatigue testing of both case carburized and through hardened P/F-4600 and P/F-2000 materials was
carried out using ball/rod testers according to the procedure described in Ref 77. Weibull analysis data are summarized in
Table 10.
Table 10 Rolling-contact fatigue data for carburized and through-hardened P/F-4600 and P/F-2000
Sintering conditions
Forging
mode
Carbon,
%
Oxygen,
ppm
Life to 10%
failure rate,
10
6
cycles
Life to 50%
failure rate,
10
6
cycles
Slope of
Weibull plot
Surface
hardness,
HRC
Carburized P/F-4600
1120 °C, DA
(a)
Upset . . . . . . 4.31 12.59 1.78
. . .
1120 °C, DA Re-press . . . . . . 4.95 16.40 1.59
1260 °C, DA Upset . . . . . . 4.27 16.70 1.38
. . .
1260 °C, DA Re-press . . . . . . 12.50 23.00 3.18
. . .
1120 °C, ENDO
(b)
Upset . . . . . . 13.80 27.20 2.82
. . .
1120 °C, ENDO Re-press . . . . . . 6.37 22.24 1.52
. . .
Through-hardened P/F-4600
1120 °C, DA Upset 0.81 220 5.77 9.70 3.66
. . .
1120 °C, DA Re-press 0.81 210 6.35 11.16 3.35
. . .
1120 °C, DA Upset 1.03 220 5.60 12.97 2.26
. . .
1120 °C, DA Re-press 0.98 330 3.89 11.31 1.78
. . .
1260 °C, DA Upset 0.79 75 11.62 17.61 4.58
. . .
1260 °C, DA Re-press 0.78 85 9.00 18.38 2.66
. . .
1260 °C, DA Upset 1.02 99 10.39 24.23 2.24
. . .