MPIE Workshop on White Etching Cracks / Matter Formation Mechanisms
October 23rd 2018
Seminar room1, Max-Planck-Str.1, Düsseldorf
| 08:30 | Coffee and cookies | 
| 08:50 | Welcome (Dr. Michael Herbig) | 
| 09:00 | The white etching crack discussion ‐ a challenge to the industry Dr. Kenred Stadler & Dr. Erik Vegter (SKF) | 
| 09:30 | 3D X‐ray computerized tomography of white etching cracks Dr. Hilmar Danielsen (DTU Wind Energy) | 
| 10:00 | SEM and TEM investigations of the formation mechanisms of white etching areas Prof. Dr. Joachim Mayer (GFE Aachen / Ernst Ruska‐Center Jülich) | 
| 10:30 | Discussion & Coffee Break | 
| 11:00 | White layers created during hard machining of bearing steels Dr. Seyed B. Hosseini (Chalmers University / Swerea IVF) | 
| 11:30 | Formation of white etching cracks using an additional electrical load Dr. Manuel Zürcher (IPAT, Erlangen University) | 
| 12:00 | Microstructural evolution of white and brown etching layers in pearlitic rail steels Ankit Kumar (TU Delft / MPIE) | 
| 12:30 | Lunch | 
| 13:30 | White etching layers in railway steel: looking into the microstructure and formation mechanism Prof. Dr. Jilt Sietsma (TU Delft) | 
| 14:00 | Can room temperature plastic deformation generate white etching layers? Prof. Dr. Reinhard Pippan (Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science) | 
| 14:30 | The formation of fine‐granular areas during very‐high‐cycle fatigue of steels Prof. Dr. Ulrich Krupp (IEHK Aachen) | 
| 15:00 | Discussion & Coffee Break | 
| 15:30 | Atomic scale mechanisms of carbide dissolution and strengthening in wire drawn pearlite and Dr. Yujiao Li (Ruhr‐University Bochum) | 
| 16:00 | Formation mechanism of white etching cracks in bearings Dr. Michael Herbig (MPIE) | 
| 16:30 | Microstructure stability of high nitrogen bearing steel Yu Qin (MPIE) | 
| 17:00 | A unified theory for microstructural alterations in bearing steels under rolling contact fatigue Prof. Pedro E.J. Rivera‐Díaz‐del‐Castillo (Lancaster University) | 
| 17:30 | End of workshop |