Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 73 Issue 5

Dry sliding tribological properties of A356-SiCP aluminum matrix composites prepared by vacuum stir casting

Jiaqi Pan, Xiaoshan Liu, Guoqiu He, Bin Ge, Peiwen Le, Jingquan Li, Zhiqiang Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to understand the effect of particle content, applied load and sliding speed on the tribological properties of A356-SiCP composites manufactured using…

Microstructure and tribological properties of sprayed nanostructure Fe-based martensite coating on an aluminum cylinder liner

Eryong Liu, Yuan Xue, Yaping Bai, Jibin Pu, Shuangming Du, Huiling Du

The purpose of this paper is to improve the tribological properties of aluminum cylinder liner. Higher martensite contents were closely related to the higher hardness and…

Determining the tribological behavior of 316L stainless steel with lubricating micro-channels produced by the selective laser melting (SLM) method

Kerem Turalıoğlu, Merve Taftalı, Fatih Yetim

This study aims to produce lubricating surfaces with micro-channels by the selective laser melting (SLM) method, and to investigate their tribological behavior.

Restrictor-based studies of hybrid hole-entry conical journal bearings

Prashant G. Khakse, Vikas M. Phalle

This paper aims to describe how successfully a particular restrictor delivers its best in increasing the conical journal bearing performance. The restrictors are used in the…

Fabrication of high-aspect-ratio grooves with high surface quality by using femtosecond laser

Ru Zhang, Chuanzhen Huang, Jun Wang, Hongtao Zhu, Hanlian Liu

The purpose of this study is to fabricate high-aspect-ratio grooves with high surface quality by femtosecond laser (FS) to improve the machinability of silicon carbide (SiC) and…

Tribo-performance analysis of HVOF sprayed 86WC-10Co4Cr & Ni-Cr2O3 on AISI 316L steel using DOE-ANN methodology

Jashanpreet Singh

The purpose of this paper is to carry out erosion wear investigation on high-velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF)-deposited 86WC-10Co4Cr and synergistic Ni/Chromia powder (i.e. 80Ni-20Cr₂O₃…

Flow field characteristics of micro-scale textured surfaces of water-lubricated bearings using lattice Boltzmann method

Chunxiao Jiao, Jianghai Xu, Donglin Zou, Na Ta, Zhushi Rao

The purpose of this paper is to study the flow field characteristics of the micro-scale textured bearing surfaces using the lattice Boltzmann method based on the microscopic…

Design of logarithmic crowned roller for tapered roller bearings based on the elastohydrodynamic lubrication model

Hongyu Duan, Qingtao Yu, Zhijian Wang

The purpose of this paper is to study the film-forming capacity of logarithmic crowned roller for tapered roller bearing (TRB) and to design a tapered roller profile based on an…

Influence mechanism of surface texture on the output performance of an ultrasonic motor

Xiaoliang Liu, Xiaoming Huang, Jian Zhang, Weitao Sun

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence mechanism of different interface component surface textures on the ultrasonic motor (USM) output performance.

Application of recurrence dynamic analysis to running-in state recognition

Minglong Peng, Yuankai Zhou, Xue Zuo

The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamic features of friction coefficient during running-in state based on recurrence analysis, so as to recognize the running-in state of…

Experimental study of pin surface precision on lubrication behavior of pin–bush pairs in industrial roller chains

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

The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of surface precision on the lubrication state of the roller chain under adequate and rare oil supply conditions, respectively.

Tribiological behavior of modified phenolic resin composites for braking applications

Fikrat Yusubov

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of binder effect on tribological behavior of brake friction composite materials: a case study of phenolic resin modified…

Tribological characterization of friction stir welded dissimilar aluminum alloy AA6061–AA5083 reinforced with CeO2 and La2O3 nanoparticles

Arun M., Muthukumaran M., Balasubramanian S.

Dissimilar materials found applications in the structural fields to withstand the different types of loads and provide multi-facet properties to the final structure. Aluminum…

Tribological behavior of AZ91D magnesium alloy composite: effect of hybrid WC – SiO2 nanoparticles

Mohammed Fahad, Bavanish B.

Aviation field requires a material with greater tribological characteristics to withstand the critical climate conditions. Hence, it is of paramount importance to enhance the wear…

Lubricated friction behaviour of thermal spray steel coated cylinder bores studied using a long-stroke reciprocating tribometer

Ming Lou, Ahmet T. Alpas

This paper aims to study the effectiveness of using thermal spray (TS) coated bores in reducing friction under the mixed lubrication (ML) and elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL…

Preparation and tribological characteristics of graphene/triangular copper nanoplate composites as grease additive

Jing Wang, Hongying Mi, Weigui Zhou, Xin Yang, Yan He

This study aims to the preparation and tribological characteristics of graphene/triangular copper nanoplate composites (abbreviated as GN/Cu nanoplates) as grease additive and…

Experimental study on the effect of load and rotation speed on dry sliding of silicon nitride

Zhishuang Wang, Songhua Li, Jian Sun, Junhai Wang, Yonghua Wang, Zhongxian Xia, Chao Wei

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of load and rotation speed on dry sliding of silicon nitride, including a series of tribological behaviors (friction…

Analysis of temperature field and convection heat transfer of oil-air two-phase flow for ball bearing with under-race lubrication

Heyun Bao, Xiaonan Hou, Xin Tang, Fengxia Lu

Under-race lubrication can increase the amount of lubricating oil entering a bearing and greatly improve lubrication and cooling effects. The oil-air two-phase flow and heat…

Development of a mini-tribometer for in-situ observation of subsurface and the corresponding experiments

Chen Li, Heng Wen, Kun Chen, Longxiao Zhang, Ting Xie, Yaru Shi, Junlong Zhang

This paper aims to develop a Mini-Tribometer for in-situ observation of subsurface.

Synergistic lubrication effect of antioxidant and low content ZDDP on PFPE grease

Penghao Qi, Shijian Wang, Jing Li, Yue Li, Guangneng Dong

The purpose of this study is to reduce the use of Zinc dialkyl dithiophosphates (ZDDP) and improve the frictional properties and thermal oxidation stability of Perfluoropolyether…