Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 69 Issue 1

Fundamental studies on tribolayers created by lubricating pastes with new additive packages

Christian Busch, Simon Weber, Reinhardt Schneider

The purpose of this paper, an R&D project, is to select Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS)-unclassified white solid lubricants for…

An investigation on wear behavior of Cu-graphite nanocomposites prepared by flake powder metallurgy

Temel Varol, Aykut Canakci

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of nanographite content and the sliding time on the wear behavior of Cu-graphite nanocomposites.

Thermo-mixed lubrication analysis of coated compression rings with worn cylinder profiles

Anastasios Zavos, Pantelis Nikolakopoulos

Compression rings are the main sources of frictional losses in internal combustion engines. The present paper aims to present a thermo-mixed hydrodynamic analysis for coated top…

A finite element analysis of an elastic contact between a layered cylindrical hollow roller and flat contact

Mitul Thakorbhai Solanki, Dipak Vakharia

The purpose of this paper is to present a finite element analysis (FEA) which shows the comparison between a layered cylindrical hollow roller bearing and hollow roller bearing.

Maps of 3D parameters for worn surfaces of composites PA and glass beads sliding on steel

Catalin Pirvu, Laura Maftei, Constantin Georgescu, Lorena Deleanu

This paper aims to present the influence of glass bead concentration in a matrix of polyamide on wear and several three-dimensional (3D) parameters of the surface texture when the…

Friction characteristics of hybrid magnesium alloy composites reinforced with carbon nanotube and cerium

Fatma Nazli Sari, Mehmet Baki Karamis, Yahya Kaya

The paper aims to clarify the hybrid Mg alloy composites reinforced with multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) and Cerium (Ce) rare earth element tribological properties were…

Destabilization of lubrication oil micropool under charged conditions

Guoxin Xie, Ziyi Cui, Lina Si, Dan Guo

This paper aims to introduce a series of experimental results which are the extension of our previous novel observations (Xie et al., Soft Matter, 2011), which could be helpful…

Improvement of wear behaviour of titanium by boriding

Gökhan Kara, Gencaga Purcek, Harun Yanar

The purpose of this paper is to achieve a hard and protective borided layer on commercially pure Ti (grade-2) by applying boriding, and to investigate the changes in its…

Damage estimator, a possible way to predict the failure of hip and knee endoprosthesis

Lucian Capitanu, Virgil Florescu, Liliana-Laura Badita

The purpose of this study was to realize finite element simulation in order to dynamically determine the area of the contact, the contact pressure and the strain energy density…