Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 71 Issue 4

Experimental study on frictional loss of high-speed bearings based on free-deceleration and energy-balance methods

Shengli Tian, Xiaoan Chen, Tianchi Chen, Ye He

The purpose of this study is to investigate accurate and effective experimental methods for measuring the frictional loss of bearings (FLB) in mechanical systems and to measure…

Influence of positive texturing on friction and wear properties of piston ring-cylinder liner tribo pair under lubricated conditions

Venkateswara Babu P., Ismail Syed, Satish Ben Beera

In an internal combustion engine, piston ring-cylinder liner tribo pair is one among the most critical rubbing pairs. Most of the energy produced by an internal combustion engine…

Study on rheological properties of aviation lubricating oil under conditions of heavy load, high speed, and high temperature

Zhen Li, Xiaoli Zhao, Dezhi Zheng, Tingjian Wang, Le Gu, Liqin Wang

This study aims to evaluate the rheological properties of aviation lubricating oil under conditions of heavy load, high speed and high temperature and the applicability of the…

Using recurrence plots for stability analysis of ring-on-disc tribopairs

Guodong Sun, Hua Zhu, Cong Ding

AISI 52100-AISI 1045 specimens were used as the ring-on-disc tribopairs in the experiments to investigate the stability of friction process.

Influence of temperature – viscosity effect on ring-journal speed ratio and stability for a hydrodynamic floating ring bearing

Hong Guo, Shuai Yang, Shaolin Zhang, Zebin Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of lubricant temperature-viscosity on the performance for a hydrodynamic journal floating ring bearing (FRB), including…

Inspection of nickel-based boron carbide PTA coatings on AISI 4140 steel

Gökçe Mehmet AY, Osman Nuri ÇELİK

Plasma transferred arc (PTA) coating is a novel method for surface-coating applications. In this method, the substrate is melted using a plasma arc, and surfacing agents such as…

A fractal view on running-in process: taking steel-on-steel tribo-system as an example

Yuankai Zhou, Xue Zuo, Hua Zhu

Running-in is a transient process prior to steady state and of great importance for mechanical performance. To reveal the fractal behavior in the running-in process, the…

Improvement of lubrication performance of water lubricated polymer bearing via enlarged axial end bearing diameter

Fangrui Lv, Donglin Zou, Na Ta, Zhu-Shi Rao

The purpose of this paper is to improve the lubrication performance of a water-lubricated polymer bearing with axial grooves, especially enlarge the minimum film thickness.

Effect of reciprocating and unidirectional sliding motion on the friction and wear of phenolic resin based composite

Peng Cai, Zhongfan Luo, Xuhua Duan, Xinshao Qin

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of reciprocating and unidirectional sliding motions on friction and wear of phenolic resin-based composite.

Improved biodegradability and tribological performances of mineral lubricating oil by two synthetic nitrogenous heterocyclic additives

Jianhua Ding, Jianhua Fang, Boshui Chen, Nan Zhang, Xingyu Fan, Zhe Zheng

This paper aims to understand the influences of tris (2-hydroxyethyl) isocyanurate oleate and oleic acid tris (2-hydroxyethyl) isocyanurate phosphate ester on biodegradability and…

A comparative study on tribological properties of leaf-surface waxes extracted from coastal and inland plants

Yanqiu Xia, Wenyi Zhang, Zhengfeng Cao, Xin Feng

This paper aims to explore the leaf-surface wax as green lubricant additive and compare the tribological properties between coastal and inland leaf-surface waxes of the same…

Computational fluid dynamic study on the tribological performance of dimple-textured surface fabricated using the turning process

Haniff Abdul Rahman, Jaharah A. Ghani, Wan Mohd Faizal Wan Mahmood, Mohammad Rasidi Mohammad Rasani

This study aims to simulate the influence of surface texturing produced via turning process toward pressure distribution and load capacity generation using computational fluid…

Temperature characteristics analysis of axial piston pump port plate pair

Zhaoqiang Wang, Jun Cheng, Hong Ji, Shan Hu, Hao Chen

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of single parameters for temperature characteristics of oil film in port plate pair and the relationship of calculated results…

Erosion wear performance of Ni-Cr-O and NiCrBSiFe-WC(Co) composite coatings deposited by HVOF technique

Jashanpreet Singh, Satish Kumar, S.K. Mohapatra

This study/paper aims to investigate the erosion wear performance of Ni-based coatings [Ni-Cr-O and NiCrBSiFe-WC(Co)] under sand-water slurry conditions.

Optimal design of parallel sliders with square-shaped textures considering fluid-structure interaction

Qiang Li, Yujun Wang, Shuo Zhang, Wei-Wei Xu, Zengli Wang, Zhenbo Wang

Surface texturing has been proven as an effective means of contact performance enhancement. However, limited work has been done to investigate the regular relationship to solve…