Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 68 Issue 6

Room temperature tribological performance of biodiesel (soybean oil)

De-Xing Peng

This paper aims to evaluate the effect of biodiesel additive in fuel system of diesel engines to reduce wear characteristics. Biofuels are environmentally friendly and renewable…

Convection heat transfer and temperature analysis of oil jet lubricated spur gears

Yanzhong Wang, Wentao Niu, Yanyan Chen, Guanhua Song, Wen Tang

This paper aims to provide an analytic technique for determining the convection heat transfer and temperature of oil jet lubricated spur gears.

The experimental optimization of abrasive wear resistance model for an in-situ AlB2/Al-4Cu metal matrix composite

Ferit Ficici

The paper aims to describe the Taguchi design method-based abrasive wear modeling of in situ AlB2 flake reinforced Al-4Cu matrix alloy composites.

Elastohydrodynamic lubrication of circular contacts at pure squeeze motion with micropolar lubricants

Li Ming Chu, Jaw-Ren Lin, Yuh-Ping Chang, Chung-Chun Wu

This paper aims to explore pure squeeze elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) motion of circular contacts with micropolar lubricants under constant load. The proposed model can…

Study of the influence of lubrication parameters on gear lubrication properties and efficiency

Kaiyue Li, Guoding Chen, Deng Liu

The analysis of lubricating properties and efficiency is important for aviation high-speed gear. So far, the project of lubricating properties and efficiency are processing under…

Synthesis of nanostructured flower-like MoS2 and its friction properties as additive in lubricating oils

Gustavo Tontini, Guilherme Dalla Lana Semione, Cristian Bernardi, Roberto Binder, José Daniel Biasoli de Mello, Valderes Drago

This paper aims to synthesize nanostructured flower-like molybdenum disulphide (MoS₂) particles and evaluate their suitability to act as additives for lubricants.

Tribological properties of self-lubricating bronze-graphite composite against Fe-based alloys

Gülcan Toktaş, İmren Öztürk Yılmaz

The purpose of this study is to investigate the tribological properties of society of automotive engineers (SAE) 430B bronze-graphite composite, supplied in the form of machined…

Effect of tooth waist order parameters of double involute gears on lubrication performance of gear drive

Zhimin Fan, Wanfeng Zhou, Ruixue Wang, Na Wang

The purpose of this paper is to derive a new lubrication model of double involute gears drive and study the effect of the tooth waist order parameters of double involute gears on…

Artificial neural network model for evaluation the effect of surface properties amendment on slurry erosion behavior of AISI 5117 steel

Bahaa Saleh, Ayman A. Aly

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of surface treatment on slurry erosion behavior of AISI 5,117 steel using artificial neural network (ANN) technique.

Experimental study of the tribological properties of an elevator’s brake linings

Ertugrul Durak, Hakan Ali Yurtseven

This paper aims to design and manufacture a wear-test rig performing reciprocating movement that is more relevant to the elevator brake system. Also, a sample test result that was…

Tribodiagnostic investigation on oil filtration: results from a novel apparatus

Alessandro Ruggiero, Miroslav Mindas, Lucia Knapcíková

The paper aims to deal with the analysis of tribodiagnostic parameters of oil filter device to investigate the possibility to launch a thorough treatment of non-invasive…

Effect of element contents on friction and wear behaviors of ternary nitride coatings

Pei Yan, Xibin Wang, Li Jiao

The purpose of this study was to clarify the applicable conditions for coatings with different element contents. Surface coating on existed tool material is an effective way to…

Experimental study for performance evaluation of steadily loaded true elliptical and orthogonally displaced non-circular journal bearing profiles

Amit Singla, Amit Chauhan

The non-circular journal bearings may be used over circular journal bearings because of their superior thermal stability. The paper aims at experimental study of thermal…

Effects of fluid inertia forces in ferrofluid lubricated circular stepped squeeze films – Shliomis model

Jaw-Ren Lin, Tzu-Chen Hung, Shu-Ting Hu

This paper aims to study the inertia squeeze film characteristics between ferrofluid-lubricated circular stepped disks. Owing to the development of modern machine systems, the…

Oil condition monitoring for HEMM – a case study

Ashwani Kumar, Subrata Kumar Ghosh

The paper aims to monitor the condition of heavy Earth-moving machines (HEMMs) used in open cast mines by lube oil analysis.

Tribological behaviour of calcium grease containing carbon nanotubes additives

Bahaa M. Kamel, Alaa Mohamed, M. El Sherbiny, K.A. Abed

The purpose of this paper is to fabricate composite nanogrease for tribological applications. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with a size 10 nm average diameter and 5 μm in…

Tribological behavior of four types of filler metals for hard facing under dry conditions

Dušan Arsić, Vukić Lazić, Slobodan Mitrović, Dragan Džunić, Srbislav Aleksandrović, Milan Djordjević, Branislav Nedeljković

The purpose of this study is to show which filler metal is the best for hard facing. Because the quality of the surface layer has a great influence on the working life of parts…

Effect of micropolar lubrication in non-circular hole-entry hybrid journal bearing with constant flow valve restrictor

Rajneesh Kumar, Suresh Verma

In the present scenario of high-speed machines, the use of non-circular hole-entry bearing configuration, i.e. two-lobe, multi-lobe, lemon bore, etc., has becomes unavoidable, as…