Industrial Lubrication and Tribology: Volume 67 Issue 2

Temperature rise characteristic of MR fluid in a multi-disc MR clutch under slip condition

Daoming Wang, Youfu Hou, Zuzhi Tian, Qingrui Meng

This study aims to reveal the temperature rise characteristic of magnetorheological (MR) fluid in a multi-disc MR clutch under slip condition, including the temperature…

Wear behaviour of carbon steel cutting wheel thermal flame sprayed with chromium carbide

Abu Seman Anasyida, Mohd Sharif Nurulakmal

This study aims to develop and evaluate an inexpensive and durable metal cutting wheel using thermal spraying and polymer binding to enhance the wheel’s cutting capability by…

Investigations on the effect of oil quality on gearboxes using neural network predictors

Menderes Kalkat

The purpose of this paper was to perform an experimental investigation to analyze vibration and noise of unloaded gearbox with different oil quality. All motor-driven machinery…

Development of novel additives for slide way lubricants

C. B. Mohan, K. Venkatesh, C. Divakar, K. Gopalakrishna, L. Murali, K. G. Lakshminarayana Bhatta

The paper aims to address the formulation of zirconium and oxalicum additive-based lubricants for use in slide ways to meet the demands of high positioning exactness based on…

HVOF Diamalloy 2002 coating of steel surface: electrochemical corrosion resistance

B. S. Yilbas, I.-H. Toor, F. Patel, Y. Al-Shehri, M. A. Baig

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the corrosion resistance of high velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF)-sprayed Diamalloy 2002 coating on carbon steel. The coating microstructure is…

Experimental and CFD investigations of carbon/SS316 mechanical face seals under different lubricating conditions

S. Kavinprasad, S. Shankar, M. Karthic

The purpose of this paper is to test mechanical face seals made of carbon/SS316 with different coolants for evaluating its tribological performance. The reliability of a…

Film forming behaviour of oil soluble polyalkylene glycols

Martin Greaves, Ksenija Topolovec Miklozic

The purpose of this paper was to examine the film-forming behaviour of simple compositions of polyalphaolefin (PAO) containing an oil-soluble polyalkylene glycol (OSP) alone, a…

Torsional tribological behavior of polytetrafluoroethylene composites filled with hexagonal boron nitride and phenyl p-hydroxybenzoate under different angular displacements

Shibo Wang, Bo Cao, Bing Teng

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and poly (phenyl p-hydroxybenzoate) (PHBA) on improving the torsional tribological…

An EHD-mixed lubrication analysis of main bearings for diesel engine based on coupling between flexible whole engine block and crankshaft

Lidui Wei, Haijun Wei, Shulin Duan, Yu Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to develop a good calculation model to accurately predict the lubrication characteristic of main bearings of diesel engine and improve the service…

Wear predictions for cams in line contacts based on multidisciplinary simulation

Wenjie Qin, Lunjing Duan

This paper aims to present the model and method involving multi-body system dynamic analysis, finite element quasi-statics contact analysis and numerical calculation of…

Laser treatment of high strength low alloy steel and electrochemical response of the surface

B. S. Yilbas, Ihsan-ul-Haq Toor, Jahanzaib Malik, F. Patel

The purpose of the present study is to report the results of the laser treatment of high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) steel surface and corrosion response of the treated surface that…

Characteristic properties of AlTiN and TiN coated HSS materials

Mumin Sahin, Cenk Misirli, Dervis Özkan

– The purpose of this paper is to examine mechanical and metallurgical properties of AlTiN- and TiN-coates high-speed steel (HSS) materials in detail.

The Jatropha curcas vegetable base soluble cutting oil as a renewable source in the machining of aluminum alloy 7050-T7451

Carlos Alberto Schuch Bork, Janaina Fracaro Souza Gonçalves, Jefferson Oliveira Gomes

This article aims to collect data on the aluminum alloy 7050-T7451 machinability used in the manufacturing of aeronautical structures, using the combination of the jatropha…