Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 73 Issue 7

Multi-objective optimization of hydro-viscous flexible drive for dynamic characteristics using genetic algorithm

Jianzhong Cui, Hu Li, Dong Zhang, Yawen Xu, Fangwei Xie

The purpose of this study is to investigate the flexible dynamic characteristics about hydro-viscous drive providing meaningful insights into the credible speed-regulating…

Mechanisms of the copper third body as an interfacial media on copper matrix friction materials with different compositions

Xiangyu Du, Junying Yang, Fei Gao, Xiaoming Han, Linlin Su

This paper aims to reveal the effects of the copper third body on different copper matrix friction materials with a novel experimental way called “exogenous powder.”

The effect of high-speed train meet on wheel wear at different speeds

AiHua Zhu, AiHua Zhu, Chaochao Ma, Jianwei Yang, Xin Hou, Hongxiao Li, Peiwen Sun

Considering that a meet between high-speed trains can generate aerodynamic loads, this study aims to investigate the effect of high-speed train meet on wheel wear at different…

Improved tribology performances of copper graphite (Cu/C) using a phosphorized oxidization surface obtained with tricresyl phosphate (TCP)

Hailin Lu, Feng Hu, Qi Liu, Yihong Li

Copper-graphite (Cu/C) is a type of seal material that has been widely used in liquid rocket engines and with normal metal pairs, has a high wear rate under liquid oxygen…

Lubrication characteristics of the worn slipper in the slipper-swashplate pair

Haiji Wang, Guanglin Shi

This paper proposes the lubrication characteristics of the worn slipper in the slipper–swashplate pair. The mathematical analysis of lubrication characteristics of slipper with…

Effects of cleaning detergent/water-in-oil emulsions on elastohydrodynamic lubrication

Lu Chen, Chenchen Xu, Mingfei Ma, Wen Wang, Liang Guo, Patrick Wong

The cleaning of food production equipment using cleaning detergents may contaminate the lubricant of the bearings, thereby reducing the bearing service life. The purpose of this…

Multi-objective design optimization of hydrodynamic journal bearings using a hybrid approach

Mohamed L. Shaltout, Hesham A. Hegazi

In this work, the design problem of hydrodynamic plain journal bearings is formulated as a multi-objective optimization problem to improve bearing performance under different…

Leakage-free optimization of micro herringbone grooved journal bearings with a virtual node method

Lei Yin, Xiaolin Zheng, Dongxing Tang, Yanfeng Han, Rui Zhao, Yi Chen

This study aims to develop a new method to treat the numerical singularity at the critical nodes of two skew coordinates, and optimize the leakage of micro herringbone grooved…

Tribological investigations of trimethylolpropane trioleate bio-based lubricants

Pramod S. Kathamore, Bhanudas D. Bachchhav

The screening of lube oil performance prior to field trials is the most significant for the formulation of novel lubricants. This paper aims to investigate the efficacy of…

Synthesis and use of TMP ester biolubricant derived from cottonseed oil in SI engine

Muhammad Bilal Khan, Rehan Zahid, Ali Hussain Kazim, Khalid Javed

Depleting reserves of crude oils and their adverse environmental effects have shifted focus toward environment friendly and biobased lubricant base oils. Natural oils and fats act…