Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 73 Issue 9

Guest editorial

Jitendra Kumar Katiyar, T.V.V.L.N. Rao, Mir Irfan Ul Haq, Mohd Fadzli Bin Abdollah

Effect of micro-textures on lubrication characteristics of spur gears under 3D line-contact EHL model

Jiang Zhao, Zhengminqing Li, Hong Zhang, Rupeng Zhu

The purpose of this paper is to use a combination of numerical simulation and experiment to evaluate the performance of laser surface texturing (LST) in the field of gear…

The effect of environmental humidity/water absorption on tribo-mechanical performance of polymers and polymer composites – a review

Kawaljit Singh Randhawa, Ashwin Patel

The mechanical and tribological properties of polymers and polymer composites vary with different environmental conditions. This paper aims to review the influence of…

Vegetable oil-based cutting fluids and its behavioral characteristics in machining processes: a review

P. Pranav, E. Sneha, S. Rani

This paper aims to provide a detailed review of various cutting fluids (CFs).

Evaluation of the tribological performance of the green hBN nanofluid on the friction characteristics of AISI 316L stainless steel

Sıtkı Akincioğlu, Şenol Şirin

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of new green hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) nanofluid on AISI 316L stainless friction coefficient, wear resistance and wear…

Effect of unbalanced magnetic pull on the thermal characteristics of traction motor bearing

Tingting Wang, Dongli Song, Weihua Zhang, Shiqi Jiang, Zhiwei Wang

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the unbalanced magnetic pull (UMP) of the rotor of traction motor and the influence of the UMP on thermal characteristics of traction motor…

Experimental research on improving the wear resistance and anti-friction properties of drill pipe joints

Zhiqiang Huang, Zhongquan Yin, Wei Wu

The purpose of this study is to solve the oil drill pipe joints and casing excessive wear problems and to improve the drill pipe joint-casing wear resistance and anti-friction…

Sustainable lubrication: low molecular weight PTFE micro-particles as extreme pressure additives for heavy duty grease applications

TCSM Gupta, Ajay Kumar, Babu Prasad

The purpose of this paper is to formulate heavy-duty lithium complex grease using low molecular weight poly tetra fluoro ethylene (PTFE) micro-particles as extreme pressure (EP…