Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 66 Issue 5

Sliding wear characteristics of grey cast iron as affected by the type and fraction of solid lubricants in oil

B.K. Prasad

The purpose of the paper is to assess the influence of the volume fraction solid lubricants like talc lead and graphite in oil separately and in combination towards controlling…

Tribological properties of carbon nanotube grease

Liu Hongtao, Ji Hongmin, Hong Haiping, Hammad Younes

The purposes of this paper are to prepare the carbon nanotube (CNT) grease, to contrast the tribology properties of the CNT grease with the original grease and to find the…

Analysis of tilting-pad thrust bearing static instability and lubrication performance under the bistability

Ouyang Wu, Yuan Xiaoyang, Jia Qian

– The purpose of this paper is to analyze the problems of tilting-pad thrust bearing static instability and lubrication performance under static bistability.

Optimization of dry sliding wear conditions for AlSi10Mg/SiCp composites using response surface: genetic algorithm approach

K. Somasundara Vinoth, R. Subramanian, S. Dharmalingam, B. Anandavel

The purpose of this research paper is to find the optimum parameters, namely, the sliding speed, applied load and percentage of silicon carbide particles (SiCp), under which…

Wear behaviour of PMMA against 316L stainless steel under dry and lubricated conditions

S. Liza, A.S.M.A. Haseeb, H.H. Masjuki

The purpose of this paper was to gain a better understanding of wear behaviour of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) in contact with 316L stainless steel under different conditions…

Microstructure and tribological properties of gas tungsten arc clad TiC composite coatings on carbon steel

De-Xing Peng, Yuan Kang, Yu-Jun Huang

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the wear performance of carbon steel cladded with TiC powders by gas tungsten arc welding method. Because of poor wear resistance, carbon…

Synthesis of a long chain alkylbiphenyl base stock and study on the lubricating properties

Tinggui Wang, Guoxing Cai, Letao Zhang, Li Ma, Erlei Yu, Wumanjiang Eli

– The Friedel-Crafts alkylation of biphenyl with 1-octene was completed using methanesulfonic acid (MSA) as catalyst.

On materials flow using different lubricants in upsetting process

Cenk Misirli

The purpose of this paper is to apply the upsetting process to cylindrical specimens using flat end dies in which three types of lubricants were used. In many industrial…