Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 65 Issue 1

Advancement and current status of wear debris analysis for machine condition monitoring: a review

Manoj Kumar, Parboti Shankar Mukherjee, Nirendra Mohan Misra

The dependency on human expertise for analysis and interpretation is the main reason for wear debris analysis not being used in industry to its full potential and becoming one of…

Analysis of lobed gas lubricated bearing using neural networks

A.D. Rahmatabadi, M. Dehghanizade Baghdadabadi, S.M. Almodarresi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of noncircular five lobe gas lubricated bearings, making use of the efficiency and simplicity of artificial neural…

Tribological study of borated hydroxyalkyldithiocarbamate as additive for environmentally adapted lubricants

Xiaohong Xu, Jiusheng Li, Lingguo Sun, Qunji Xue

The fast growing concern for maintaining integrity of the environment has built up development of environmentally‐adapted lubricants. Because of their toxicity, most of the…

Effect of different nitriding processes on the friction coefficient of 304 austenitic and 420 martensitic stainless steels

Hakan Aydin, Ali Bayram, Şükrü Topçu

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study on friction characteristics of plasma, salt‐bath and gas nitrided layers produced in AISI 304 type austenitic and…

Effects of permeability and surface roughness on the behavior of an oscillating viscoelastic squeeze film

M. Mahbubur Razzaque, Muhannad Mustafa

The purpose of this paper is to present a parametric study of the effects of permeability and surface roughness on the hydrodynamic force and the leakage flow rate in an…

Non‐Newtonian dynamic characteristics of wide composite slider bearings lubricated with couple stress fluids

Jaw‐Ren Lin, Tsu‐Liang Chou

The purpose of this paper is to provide more information for fluid‐film bearing selection and designing. The present paper is mainly concerned with the dynamic characteristics of…

Research on experiments with water vapor as coolant and lubricant in drilling Ti6Al4V

Jian Wu, Rong Di Han

The purpose of this paper is to develop water vapour as a new cooling and lubricating technique in drilling Ti6Al4V. Water vapor is an economical and eco‐friendly coolant and…

Experimental characterization of contaminants in engine lubricants using surface plasmon resonance sensing

Hamid R. Aghayan, Evgueni V. Bordatchev, Jun Yang

The purpose of this paper is to develop new knowledge in experimental characterization of contaminants in engine lubricants, using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensing that can…