Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 72 Issue 5

Experimental study on the characteristic and function of oxide film formed on grinding wheel in ELID precision grinding

Jia-Bo Zhang, Yang Yang, Xiao-Hui Zhang, Jia-Liang Guan, Li-Yan Zheng, Guang Li

The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristic and function of oxide film formed on grinding wheel in electrolytic in-process dressing (ELID) precision grinding…

Lubricant compatibility of FKM seals in synthetic oils

Dilek Bulut, Tatjana Krups, Gerhard Poll, Ulrich Giese

Elastomer seals are used in many applications. They are exposed to lubricants and additives at elevated temperatures, as well as mechanical stresses. They can only provide good…

A novel reduced order dynamic model of axial piston motors with compression flow losses and Coulomb friction losses

Lichen Gu, Rui Xu, Nan Wang

The purpose of this paper is to identify the energy losses factors during the hydro-mechanical conversion process at high pressure via a novel reduced order dynamic model.

Influence of rotational speed of a heavy-duty hydrostatic turret on bearing performance under tilt

Zhifeng Liu, Junyuan Guo, Yumo Wang, Dong Xiangmin, Yue Wu, Zhijie Yan, Gong Jinlong

This paper aims to propose a method for finding the maximum rotational speed of an inclined turntable at which the stability of the bearing oil film is maintained.

Effects of different surface grooved cylinder liner on the tribological performance for cylinder liner-piston ring components

Jiazhi Miao, Yongqing Li, Xiang Rao, Libao Zhu, Zhiwei Guo, Chengqing Yuan

The emission from marine engines has a crucial effect on energy economy and environment pollution. One of the effective emission reduction schemes is to minimize the friction loss…

Influence of micro-groove attributes on frictional power loss and load-carrying capacity of hybrid thrust bearing

Vivek Kumar, Satish C. Sharma, Kuldeep Narwat

Micro-surface texturing is emerging as a possible way to enhance the tribological performance of hydrodynamic fluid film bearings. In view of this, numerical simulations are…

Tribological performance of a surface textured meso scale air bearing

Nilesh D. Hingawe, Skylab P. Bhore

The purpose of this study is to improve the tribological performance of meso scale air journal bearing by adopting texture on the bearing surface.

Dynamic behavior analysis of a rigid rotor supported by hydrostatic squeeze film dampers compensated with new electrorheological valve restrictors

Mohamed Benadda, Ahmed Bouzidane, Marc Thomas, Raynald Guilbault

This paper aims to propose a new hydrostatic squeeze film damper compensated with electrorheological valve restrictors to control the nonlinear dynamic behavior of a rigid rotor…

Constitutive relation and mechanical mechanism analysis in granular lubrication

Fanjing Meng, Minghua Pang, Kun Liu

Granular lubrication can solve some lubrication problems under many extreme operating conditions. Meanwhile, the flow constitutive relation is one of its unsolved problems in…

Experimental study on the effect of pressure and flow rate on cavitation in a poppet throttle valve

Jian Zhang, Tingting Luo

The purpose of this paper is to study the variation of cavitation scale with pressure and flow in poppet throttle valve, to obtain the cavitation scale under pressure and flow…

Frictional characteristics of thin-walled tubes in liquid impact forming

Jianping Ma, Lianfa Yang, Yulin He, Jian Guo

This paper aims to study frictional characteristics of thin-walled tubes in the liquid impact forming (LIF) process.

Analysis on micro-motion of cylinder block based on elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication

Jihai Jiang, Wei-Peng Yan, Ge-Qiang Li

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the micro-motion of the cylinder block.

Effect of load on the fretting behavior of SAF 2507 super duplex stainless steel in air and sea water

Mengjiao Wang, Yunxia Wang, Hao Liu, Fengyuan Yan

This paper aims to study the influence of load and environment medium on the fretting behavior of SAF 2507 SDSS.

Effect of vibration on power loss of angular contact ball bearings

De-Xing Zheng, W.F. Chen, Guanyun Xiao, Dateng Zheng

This paper aims to devote to the experimental analysis and modeling on the heat generation of angular contact ball bearings under vibration.

Friction and wear behavior of single-phase high-entropy alloy FeCoNiCrMn under MoS2-oil lubrication

Hao Wang, Kai Ren, Jin Xie, Chen Zhang, Wencheng Tang

The face-centered cubic structured single-phase FeCoNiCrMn high-entropy alloys (HEAs) were prepared to study the friction and wear behavior of HEAs under MoS₂-oil lubrication.

Study on friction behavior of SiC-B4C composite ceramics after annealing

Wei Zhang, Seiji Yamashita, Takeshi Kumazawa, Fumihito Ozeki, Hideki Hyuga, Hideki Kita

This study aims to investigate the friction behavior of SiC-B₄C composite ceramics treated by annealing in air sliding against SiC balls.

Study on the correlation between the running-in attractor and the wear particle group

Cong Ding, Zhen-Yu Zhou, Zhi-Peng Yuan, Hua Zhu, Zhong-Yu Piao

The purpose of this paper is to study the correlation between the dynamic features of the running-in attractor and the wear particle group, so as to characterize the running-in…

Thermo-mechanical analysis of train wheel-rail contact using a novel finite-element model

Liuqing Yang, Ming Hu, Deming Zhao, Jing Yang, Xun Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel method for analyzing wheel-rail (W-R) contact using thermo-mechanical measurements and study the effects of heating on the…

A thermal EHL investigation for size effect of finite line contact on bush-pin hinge pairs in industrial chains

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

This paper aims to study the influence of the dimension change of bush-pin on the pressure, oil film thickness, temperature rise and traction coefficient in contact zone by using…

An improved stiffness model for line contact elastohydrodynamic lubrication and its application in gear pairs

Jiaxing Pei, Xu Han, Yourui Tao

The purpose of this paper is to propose an simple and efficient stiffness model for line contact under elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) and to investigate the gear meshing…