Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 71 Issue 9

Abrasive wear analysis of RZ5/TiC in-situ composites: a statistical approach

Deepak Mehra, Manas Mohan Mahapatra, Suraj Prakash Harsha

The RZ5 mg alloy is used in automotive and aerospace applications including helicopter gearboxes and aircraft components. These components are prone to the wear as per the…

Research on the wheel wear of metro vehicles based on the time-varying passenger flow

AiHua Zhu, Caozheng Fu, JianWei Yang, Qiang Li, Jiao Zhang, Hongxiao Li, Kaiqi Zhang

This study aims to investigate the effect of time-varying passenger flow on the wheel wear of metro vehicles to provide a more accurate model for predicting wheel wear and a new…

Principal normal stress cavitation criterion for CFD analysis of loading capacity in journal bearings

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

Shear stresses have a considerable influence on the characteristics of lubricants and become significant at high rotating speeds. This study aims to investigate the influences of…

Numerical study on steady state performance enhancement of partial textured hydrodynamic journal bearing

Sanjay Sharma, Gourav Jamwal, R.K. Awasthi

The purpose of this paper is to provide the various steady state parameters of hydrodynamic journal bearings have been determined to get maximum performance enhancement ratio. For…

Investigations on tribological behaviour of AA7075-TiO2 composites under dry sliding conditions

Alagarsamy S.V., Ravichandran M.

Aluminium and its alloys are the most preferred material in aerospace and automotive industries because of their high strength-to-weight ratio. However, these alloys are found to…

The dynamic simulation and experiment of bearing capacity of multi oil cushion static bearing with double rectangular cavities

Yanqin Zhang, Jichang Sun, Pengrui Kong, Xiangbin Kong, Xiaodong Yu

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the bearing capacity of hydrostatic bearing during the change of film thickness under different working conditions and to improve the…

Size effect on thermal elastohydrodynamic lubrication of industrial chain bush-pin hinge pair

Mingyu Zhang, Jing Wang, Yi Liu, Longjie Dai, Zhaohua Shang

The purpose of this paper is to use elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) theory to study the variation of the equivalent curvature radius “R” on the change of oil film thickness…

Simulation of effect of counterface roughness on the friction transfer and wear of PTFE sliding against steel

Ting Xie, Junjie Lai, Huaping Yang

This paper aims to simulate the effect of counterface roughness on the friction transfer and wear of the polymer material sliding against steel.

Comparative analysis of stearates as grease lubricant thickeners

Lidan Yao, Lixin Wang, Haining Yang, Chuan Li, Hui Song, Xianguo Hu

This paper aims to investigate the influence of stearate types on the thickening ability, dropping point and fiber structure of greases.

A numerical method to investigate the mixed lubrication performances of journal-thrust coupled bearings

Guo Xiang Guo Xiang, Yanfeng Han, Renxiang Chen, Jiaxu Wang Jiaxu Wang, Ni Xiaokang

This paper aims to present a numerical model to investigate the mixed lubrication performances of journal-thrust coupled bearings (or coupled bearings).

Improved hydrodynamic performance of liquid film seal by considering boundary slip and cavitation

Yun-Lei Wang, Jiu-Hui Wu, Mu-Ming Hao, Lu-Shuai Xu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of boundary slip on hydrodynamic performance of liquid film seal considering cavitation.

Performance studies of textured race ball bearing

Vivek Bhardwaj, R.K. Pandey, V.K. Agarwal

The purpose of this paper is to develop an energy-efficient and dynamically improved thrust ball bearing using textured race. A texture has been used on the stationary race of the…