Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 71 Issue 7

Investigating the influences of pressure-equalizing grooves on characteristics of aerostatic bearings based on CFD

Ruzhong Yan, Liaoyuan Wang, Shengze Wang

The purpose of this study is to reveal the influence law of pressure-equalizing grooves on aerostatic bearings and improve the static performance of bearings by optimizing the…

A comparative study on the high temperature dry sliding wear behavior of TiN and AlTiN/TiSiN coatings fabricated by PVD technique

Emre Altaş, Azmi Erdogan, Fatih Koçyiğit

This study aims to investigate the high-temperature wear behavior of the TiN- and AlTiN/TiSiN-coated WC materials.

Linear extended state observer-based control of active lubrication for active hydrostatic journal bearing by monitoring bearing clearance

Waheed Ur Rehman, Jiang Guiyun, Luo Yuan Xin, Wang Yongqin, Nadeem Iqbal, Shafiq UrRehman, Shamsa Bibi

This paper’s aim is modeling and simulation of an advanced controller design for a novel mechatronics system that consists of a hydrostatic journal bearing with servo control. The…

Contact status between seal ring and its support: crucial factor in hydrostatic mechanical face seal

Qiang He, Weifeng Huang, Ying Liu, Xiangfeng Liu, Yongjian Li, Yuming Wang

This paper aims to investigate the influence of the contact status between the seal ring and its support on the seal performance in hydrostatic mechanical face seal.

Wear behaviors of WC and TiC on co matrix composites under three-body impact abrasive wear condition

Lei Dong, Xiaoyu Zhang, Kun Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Ruiming Shi, Junyuan Wang, Feng Liu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the tribological properties of the WC/TiC-Co substrate under different loading conditions under three impact abrasive wear conditions.

Analysis of oxide wear debris using ferrography image segmentation

Peng Peng, Jiugen Wang

It is a challenging task to analysis oxide wear particles when they are stuck together with other types of wear particles in complex ferrography images. Hence, this paper aims to…

Analysis and correction on frictional temperature rise testing of brake based on preset thermometry method

Shaodi Zhao, Yan Yin, Jiusheng Bao, Xingming Xiao, Zengsong Li, Guoan Chen

The friction between brake pair causes an intense temperature rise on interface during braking, which affects the braking performance seriously. Therefore, building an accurate…

Magneto-hydrostatic lubrication of thrust bearings considering different configurations of recess

Vivek Kumar, Satish C. Sharma

This paper aims to numerically investigate the influence of magnetic field and recess configurations on performance of hydrostatic thrust bearing. Electrically conducting fluid is…

The effect of sea-water on the tribological properties of polyurethanes

Yanbao Guo, Hai Tan, Deguo Wang, Siwei Zhang

Ocean exploration is of importance and in great demand throughout the world. This results in a huge challenge in tribology in the marine environment. Moreover, polymeric materials…

Study on the influence of round pits arrangement patterns on tribological properties of journal bearings

Yazhou Mao, Yang Jianxi, Xu Wenjing, Liu Yonggang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of round pits arrangement patterns on tribological properties of journal bearing. In this paper, the tribological behaviors…

Research on transmission efficiency of high power hydro-viscous clutch

Qi Sun, Fangwei Xie, Kuaidi Wan, Xinjian Guo, Jie Zhu, Van Xo Nguyen, Yun Wang

The purpose of this paper is to study the influences of the oil film thickness between the friction pairs, the rotational speed of the active and passive friction disks and the…

Tribological behavior of laser textured nodular cast iron surface

Yongmei Zhu, Junjie Chen, Jiajun Du, Yujie Fan, Jifei Zheng

Previous publications were mainly focused on the effect of textures under lubrication. Under dry sliding, area ratio of surface texturing (pit area ratio) and diameter of pit…

Experimental comparison of CuAl10Fe3 journal bearings sliding against two different coatings

Xinbo Wang, Zhongwei Yin, Hulin Li, Gengyuan Gao, Jun Cao

The purpose of this paper is to study the frictional behaviors of CuAl10Fe3 journal bearings sliding against chromium electroplated 42CrMo shafts and diamond-like carbon-coated…

Microstructural evolution and dynamic strain-hardening in friction-induced deformation layers of 30CrMnSi steel

Peng Zhu, Shuang Liang, Yudan Yang, Xicheng Wei, Wurong Wang

This paper aims to investigate the correlation between wear behavior and microstructure evolution in friction-induced deformation layers (FDL) of 30CrMnSi steel, especially the…

Analysis on suitability of HVOF sprayed Ni-20Al, Ni-20Cr and Al-20Ti coatings in coal-ash slurry conditions using artificial neural network model

Jashanpreet Singh

The purpose of this study is to analyze the slurry erosion failure of Ni-20Cr (Ni-Cr₂O₃), Ni-20Al (Ni-Al₂O₃) and Al-20Ti (Al₂O₃-TiO₂) coatings deposited on SS316L by the…