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The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of surface roughness characterized by fractal geometry on squeeze film damping characteristics in damper of the linear rolling…
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of surface roughness characterized by fractal geometry on squeeze film damping characteristics in damper of the linear rolling guide, which has not been studied so far.
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The stochastic model of film thickness between rail and damper is established by using the two-variable Weierstrass–Mandelbrot function defining multi-scale and self-affinity properties of the rough surface topography. The stochastically averaged Reynolds equation is solved by using the variables separation method to further derive the film pressure distribution, the damping coefficient, the damping force and squeeze film time. The effect of surface roughness on squeeze film damping characteristics of the damper is analyzed and discussed through simulation.
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By comparing cases of the rough surface for different fractal parameters and the smooth surface, it is shown that for the isotropic roughness structure, the presence of surface roughness of the damper decreases the squeeze film damping characteristics. It is found that roughness effect on the damping coefficient is associated with the film thickness. In addition, the vibration amplitude effect is negligible for the damper of the linear rolling guide.
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To investigate the random surface roughness effect, the rough surface topography of damper of the linear rolling guide is characterized by using the fractal method instead of the traditional mathematical statistics method.
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Jaw-Ren Lin, Tzu-Chen Hung and 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…
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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 application of ferrofluids has received great attention. Because the circular disks are a special situation of circular stepped squeeze films, a further study of fluid inertia force effects on the ferrofluid-lubricated circular stepped squeezing mechanism is motivated.
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On the basis of the ferrohydrodynamic flow model of Shliomis incorporating the momentum integral method, the effects of fluid inertia forces in ferrofluid-lubricated circular stepped squeeze films in the presence of external magnetic fields are investigated in this study. Analytical solutions of squeeze film performances are derived.
Findings
The fluid inertia force effects provide an increased load capacity and a longer squeeze film time for the ferrofluid-lubricated circular stepped squeeze film, especially for a larger value of the inertia parameter, the Langevin parameter and the volume concentration and a smaller value of the radius ratio and the step height ratio.
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For engineering applications, numerical tables for squeeze film loads of circular stepped disks are also provided in this paper.
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M. Mahbubur Razzaque and Muhannad Mustafa
The purpose of this paper is to present a parametric study of the effects of permeability and surface roughness on the hydrodynamic force and the leakage flow rate in an…
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The purpose of this paper is to present a parametric study of the effects of permeability and surface roughness on the hydrodynamic force and the leakage flow rate in an oscillating squeeze film between a rigid surface and a rubber surface.
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The study is conducted numerically using a squeeze film model that incorporates the effects of viscoelasticity, permeability and surface roughness.
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It is seen that with increasing permeability of the porous rubber block, both the hydrodynamic force and the leakage flow rate decrease. Increasing center line average (CLA) of surface roughness height distribution decreases the leakage flow rate slightly but increases the hydrodynamic force. The decrease in the hydrodynamic force due to using permeable material in squeeze film may be compensated for by deliberately increasing the surface roughness. The effect of variation in frequency of system vibration may be minimized by using optimally selected permeable materials with rough surface.
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The paper reports the extension of previous work of the authors and the results of this portion were never published. The findings of this paper are based on original work and have practical value.
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Binbin Su, Xianghe Zou and Lirong Huang
This paper aims to investigate the squeeze film lubrication properties of hexagonal patterned surface inspired by the epidermis structure of tree frog’s toe pad and numerically…
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This paper aims to investigate the squeeze film lubrication properties of hexagonal patterned surface inspired by the epidermis structure of tree frog’s toe pad and numerically explore the working mechanism of hexagonal micropillar during the acquisition process of high adhesive and friction for wet contacts.
Design/methodology/approach
A two-dimensional elastohydrodynamic numerical model is employed for the squeezing contacts. The pressure distribution, load carrying capacity and liquid flow rate of the squeeze film are obtained through a simultaneous solution of the two-dimensional Reynolds equation and elasticity deformation equations.
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Higher pressure is found to be longitudinally distributed across individual hexagonal pillar, with pressure peak emerging at the center of hexagonal pillar. Expanding the area density and shrinking the channel depth or initial film thickness will improve the magnitude of squeezing pressure. Relatively lower pressure is generated inside interconnected channels, which reduces the load carrying capacity of the squeeze film. Meanwhile, the introduction of microchannel is revealed to downscale the total mass flow rate of squeezing contacts.
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This paper provides a good proof for the working mechanism of surface microstructures during the acquisition process of high adhesive and friction for wet contacts.
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Jaw‐Ren Lin, Chi‐Ren Hung, Li‐Ming Chu, Wei‐Liang Liaw and Ping‐Hui Lee
In the present paper, the authors aim to analyze the non‐Newtonian effects of Rabinowitsch fluids on the squeeze film performances between wide parallel rectangular plates.
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In the present paper, the authors aim to analyze the non‐Newtonian effects of Rabinowitsch fluids on the squeeze film performances between wide parallel rectangular plates.
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Based on the cubic‐stress equation model, a nonlinear squeeze‐film Reynolds‐type equation has been derived. By using a small perturbation method, a closed‐form solution of the squeeze film characteristics is derived for the parallel plates considering the non‐Newtonian effects of cubic stresses.
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Comparing with the Newtonian‐lubricant parallel plates, the effects of non‐Newtonian cubic‐stress flow rheology provide significant influences upon the squeeze film characteristics.
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It is shown that the non‐Newtonian pseudoplastic behavior reduces the load capacity and the response time; however, the effects of non‐Newtonian dilatant lubricant provide an increase in the load‐carrying capacity and therefore lengthen the response time of parallel squeeze‐film plates.
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The aim of this study is to extend the squeezing film problems between a long cylinder and an infinite plate, considering the piezo-viscous behavior (PVB) of the Barus…
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The aim of this study is to extend the squeezing film problems between a long cylinder and an infinite plate, considering the piezo-viscous behavior (PVB) of the Barus experimental relationship.
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By integrating the nonlinear Reynolds-type differential equation directly, an analytical film-pressure solution is obtained and applied to investigate the load-carrying capacity and the approaching time.
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Compared with the case of constant-viscosity lubricants (CVLs), the effects of PVB are found to provide higher load-carrying capacities and longer approaching times for the squeezing films.
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It is found that when the cylinder is squeezed to a dimensionless central film height of 0.3, the dimensionless approaching time required for the CVL case is 4.922. However, the effects of PVB (α 0.0001, 0.001, 0.005 and 0.01) provide longer approaching times with values of 8.324, 8.438, 9.028 and 10.079. The cylinder-plate squeeze film system considering the influences of PVB results in a longer operating life.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the pure squeeze thin film elastohydrodynamic lubrication (TFEHL) motion of circular contacts with adsorption layers attached to each…
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the pure squeeze thin film elastohydrodynamic lubrication (TFEHL) motion of circular contacts with adsorption layers attached to each surface under constant load condition. The proposed model can reasonably calculate the pressure distributions, film thicknesses, normal squeeze velocities, and effective viscosities during the pure squeeze process under thin film lubrication.
Design/methodology/approach
The transient modified Reynolds equation is derived in polar coordinates using viscous adsorption theory. The finite difference method and the Gauss‐Seidel iteration method are used to solve the transient modified Reynolds equation, the elasticity deformation equation, load balance equation, and lubricant rheology equations simultaneously.
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The simulation results reveal that the thickness of the adsorption layer and the viscosity ratio significantly influence the lubrication characteristics of the contact conjunction in the thin film regime. In additional, the turning points in the film thickness which distinguish thin film lubrication from elastohydrodynamic lubrication curve is found. In thin film region, the effective viscosity predicted by present model is better than that predicted by traditional elastohydrodynamic theory.
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The paper develops a numerical method for general applications with adsorption layers attached to each surface to investigate the pure squeeze action in a TFEHL spherical conjunction under constant load condition.
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Neminath Bhujappa Naduvinamani and Mareppa Rajashekar
The purpose of this article is to analyse the effects of surface roughness on the magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) squeeze-film characteristics between a sphere and a porous plane…
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The purpose of this article is to analyse the effects of surface roughness on the magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) squeeze-film characteristics between a sphere and a porous plane surface, which have not been studied so far.
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The analytical model takes into account the effect of porosity by assuming that the flow in the porous matrix obeys modified Darcy's law. The stochastic MHD Reynold's type equation is derived by using the Christensen's stochastic method developed for hydrodynamic lubrication of rough surfaces. Two types of one-dimensional surface roughness (radial and azimuthal) patterns are considered.
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The expressions for the mean MHD squeeze-film pressure and mean load-carrying capacity are obtained numerically. The results are shown graphically for selected representative parametric values. It is found that the response time increases significantly for the MHD case as compared to the corresponding non-conducting lubricants. The effect of roughness parameter is to increase/decrease the load-carrying capacity and the response time for azimuthal/radial roughness patterns as compared to the smooth case. Also, the effect of porous parameter is to decrease the load-carrying capacity and response time as compared to the solid case.
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In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the combined effects of surface roughness and permeability on the MHD squeeze-film characteristics between a sphere and a plane surface.
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Said Sobhi, Mohamed Nabhani, Khalid Zarbane and Mohamed El Khlifi
This study aims to present a numerical model to investigate cavitation effects on oscillatory porous squeeze film. This effect is able to cause considerable damage to the…
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This study aims to present a numerical model to investigate cavitation effects on oscillatory porous squeeze film. This effect is able to cause considerable damage to the lubrication mechanisms, mainly in the form of surface erosion. The erosion process is caused by surface spalling due to alternating positive and negative contact stresses imposed by bubble collapse. If the process continues uncontrolled, the performance of the contact will rapidly deteriorate.
Design/methodology/approach
The study is conducted numerically using Elrod–Adams model for the modified Reynolds equation coupled with the Darcy’s law for the lubricant flow through the porous medium. The governing equations are numerically discretized and iteratively solved.
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The numerical results show that frequency, amplitude and permeability have a significant influence on the generation of cavitation. A comparison of the present numerical results against available literature experimental data in particular case proved a good agreement.
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The present paper is to develop a more realistic and efficient model. Indeed, the consideration of cavitation phenomena in this model will lead to a more accurate prediction of the squeeze film characteristics. The results of this paper are based on original work and have practical value.
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In this study a numerical analysis of the elastohydrodynamic lubrication point contact problem in the unsteady state of reciprocating motion is presented. The effects of…
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In this study a numerical analysis of the elastohydrodynamic lubrication point contact problem in the unsteady state of reciprocating motion is presented. The effects of frequency, stroke length and load on film thickness and pressure variation during one operating cycle are discussed. The general tribological behavior of elastohydrodynamic lubrication during reciprocating motion is explained.
Design/methodology/approach
The system of equations of Reynolds, film thickness considering surface deformation and load balance equations are solved using the Newton-Raphson technique with the Gauss-Seidel iteration method. Numerical solutions were performed with a sinusoidal contact surface velocity to simulate reciprocating elastohydrodynamics. The methodology is validated using historical experimental measurements/observations and numerical predictions from other researchers.
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The numerical results showed that the change in oil film during a stroke is controlled by both wedge and squeeze effects. When the surface velocity is zero at the stroke end, the squeeze effect is most noticeable. As the frequency increases, the general trend of central and minimum film thickness increases. With the same entraining speed but different stroke lengths, the properties of the oil film differ from one another, with an increase in stroke length leading to a reduction in film thickness. Finally, the numerical results showed that the overall film thickness decreases with increasing load.
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General tribological behaviors of elastohydrodynamic lubricating point contact, represented by pressure and film thickness variations over time and profiles, are analyzed under reciprocating motion during one working cycle to show the effects of frequency, stroke length and applied load.
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