On the tribo-dynamic interactions between piston skirt-liner system and pin assembly in a gasoline engine

2021 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 104497
Author(s):  
Congcong Fang ◽  
Xianghui Meng ◽  
Wei Zhou ◽  
Hongchen Huang
Keyword(s):  
Gasoline Engine ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Piston Skirt ◽  
Liner System

Improvement of Transient Heat Transfer Models for the Coupled 3-D Moving Piston Assembly-Liner System

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yankun Jiang ◽  
Zhien Liu ◽  
Rolf D. Reitz ◽  
Zheling Dong ◽  
Xiaoming Ye
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Gasoline Engine ◽  
Sparse Matrix ◽  
Cylinder Liner ◽  
Heat Transfer Model ◽  
Transient Heat Transfer ◽  
Transfer Model ◽  
Piston Rings ◽  
Liner System ◽  
Piston Assembly

A transient heat transfer model for the coupling 3-D moving piston assembly-liner system has been successfully improved for predicting temperature distributions in the components of internal combustion engine chamber. In the model the effect of the 3-D friction heat generated at the piston ring/cylinder liner interfaces and the multi-dimensional lubricant film thickness between the piston rings and the liner has been taken into account. A directly coupled finite element method (FEM) is employed in the model for establishing the heat transfer relation among the moving piston assembly-cylinder liner components. A 3-D discrete model of the coupling system is formulated, which includes the piston rings, piston, liner and cylinder. Due to the complexity of the temperature stiffness matrix, a sparse matrix data structure is employed in the model to save the memory and calculation time. Finally, the 3-D coupling heat transfer model has been used to analyze heat transfer processes in a gasoline engine.

scholarly journals The Analysis of Secondary Motion and Lubrication Performance of Piston considering the Piston Skirt Profile

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanjun Lu ◽  
Sha Li ◽  
Peng Wang ◽  
Cheng Liu ◽  
Yongfang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Deformation ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Cylinder Liner ◽  
Connecting Rod ◽  
Piston Skirt ◽  
Piston Cylinder ◽  
Lubrication Performance ◽  
Rod System ◽  
Liner System ◽  
Secondary Motion

The work performance of piston-cylinder liner system is affected by the lubrication condition and the secondary motion of the piston. Therefore, more and more attention has been paid to the secondary motion and lubrication of the piston. In this paper, the Jakobson-Floberg-Olsson (JFO) boundary condition is employed to describe the rupture and reformation of oil film. The average Reynolds equation of skirt lubrication is solved by the finite difference method (FDM). The secondary motion of piston-connecting rod system is modeled; the trajectory of the piston is calculated by the Runge-Kutta method. By considering the inertia of the connecting rod, the influence of the longitudinal and horizontal profiles of piston skirt, the offset of the piston pin, and the thermal deformation on the secondary motion and lubrication performance is investigated. The parabolic longitudinal profile, the smaller top radial reduction and ellipticities of the middle-convex piston, and the bigger bottom radial reduction and ellipticities can effectively reduce the secondary displacement and velocity, the skirt thrust, friction, and the friction power loss. The results show that the connecting rod inertia, piston skirt profile, and thermal deformation have important influence on secondary motion and lubrication performance of the piston.

Numerical Study of Piston Skirt-Liner Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication and Contact by the Multigrid Method

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianghui Meng ◽  
Youbai Xie
Keyword(s):  
Contact Problem ◽  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Multigrid Method ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication ◽  
Cylinder Liner ◽  
Piston Skirt ◽  
Liner System ◽  
Tribological Analysis ◽  
Quasi Newton

The cylinder liner-piston system of internal combustion engines is one of the key friction pairs running at the most rigor working conditions. Under the influence of elastohydrodynamic lubrication and contact between the piston skirt and the liner, the dynamic process of piston is a nonlinear and stiff problem difficult to be analyzed accurately and easily. To reach a stable and rapid convergence in analysis, the MEBDF method and the multigrid method are used to solve the piston-skirt elastohydrodynamic lubrication and contact problem. Firstly the solving process of the piston dynamics is analyzed based on the MEBDF method. Then the residual equations for the elastohydrodynamic lubrication pressure are built based on the multigrid method. And the solving method of the nonlinear residual equations is presented based on the quasi Newton-Raphson method. Finally the numerical simulation program is developed based on the MEBDF method and the multigrid method. The elastohydrodynamic lubrication and contact problem of the piston skirt-liner system is simply analyzed based on the simulation. The study in this paper can provide an effective method for tribological analysis and optimization of piston–liner system in the future.

Effect of axial piston pin motion on tribo-dynamics of piston skirt-cylinder liner system

2018 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-154
Author(s):  
Fanming Meng ◽  
Minggang Du ◽  
Xianfu Wang ◽  
Yuanpei Chen ◽  
Qing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Internal Combustion Engine ◽  
Combustion Engine ◽  
Cylinder Liner ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Axial Motion ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Piston Skirt ◽  
Operation Conditions ◽  
Liner System ◽  
Axial Piston

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the axial piston pin motion on the tribological performances of the piston skirt and cylinder liner vibration for an internal combustion engine (ICE) under different operation conditions. Design/methodology/approach The dynamic equation for the piston incorporating into axial piston pin motion is derived first. Then, the proposed equation and associated lubrication equations are solved using the Broyden algorithm and difference method, respectively. Moreover, the axial motion of the piston pin and its slap on the cylinder liner are studied under different operation conditions. Findings The axial piston pin motion leads to an overall increase in the friction power consumption. Increments in the ICE speed and lubricant viscosity can augment the axial pin motion and cylinder liner vibration, especially in the power stroke. The said increments cause the instability of the piston motion in the cylinder. The axial motion of piston pin can be restrained through the eccentricity of the piston pin close to the thrust side of the cylinder liner. Originality/value This study conducts detailed discussions of the effect of axial piston pin motion on tribological and dynamic performances for piston skirt-cylinder liner system of an internal combustion engine and gives a helpful reference to analyses and designs of internal combustion engines.

Improving frictional performance of ring-liner system under cylinder deactivation conditions by surface texturing

2021 ◽  
pp. 146808742110146
Author(s):  
Yongfang Zhang ◽  
Cheng Liu ◽  
Yanjun Lu ◽  
Jianxiong Kang ◽  
Hongbo Luo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Texture ◽  
Gasoline Engine ◽  
Surface Texturing ◽  
Friction Reduction ◽  
Cylinder Deactivation ◽  
Liner System ◽  
Frictional Performance ◽  
Reduction Effect ◽  
Effect Of Surface ◽  
Total Average

In this study, a method of surface texture is considered to improve the frictional performance of the ring-liner system (i.e. RLS) under the conditions of cylinder deactivation (i.e. CDA). To assess the effectiveness of the method, a lubrication model is developed with considerations of the liner deformation, the actual rheological properties of lubricant, and the lubricant transport. By solving the model numerically, the friction reduction effect of surface texture for the RLS under the CDA is investigated. The results show that the surface texture can improve the friction properties significantly. For a six-cylinder gasoline engine, 7.57% and 7.28% decreases in the total average friction loss and power loss are observed when the RLS under the CDA is surface textured.

Dynamics and lubrication analyses of a planar multibody system with multiple lubricated joints

2017 ◽  
Vol 232 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Zhao ◽  
Yi Cui ◽  
Youbai Xie ◽  
Kun Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Gasoline Engine ◽  
Multibody System ◽  
System Modeling ◽  
Numerical Approach ◽  
Connecting Rod ◽  
Dynamics Model ◽  
Piston Skirt ◽  
Revolute Joints ◽  
Lubricated Joints ◽  
Lagrange’S Method

In order to ensure the mechanical systems a better performance, most of their joints are designed to operate with lubricant. The differently located lubricated joints interact with each other, influencing the total performances of the system. This study proposes a numerical approach for the multibody system modeling with the consideration of the interactions among the multiple lubricated joints to investigate the dynamics and tribological performances of the mechanism. This approach couples the lubrication model of both translational and revolute joints with the dynamics model of the multibody system, and is performed on a four-stroke gasoline engine with the lubricated piston skirt-liner subsystem and lubricated big-end bearing of the connecting rod. The multibody dynamics model is built with Lagrange’s method. The lubrication models are built based on the average Reynolds equation, and solved with finite element method to derive the hydrodynamic forces according to the motion of the system. The piston skirt profile, pin offset and the effects of surface roughness on the lubrication performances are taken into account. The simulation results reveal that there are obvious interactions between the differently located lubricated joints, and the larger clearance can pronounce the interactions.

Influence of piston-bore clearance on second motion characteristics of piston and skirt wear

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Xu Xiaohua
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Simulation ◽  
Gasoline Engine ◽  
Engine Test ◽  
Oil Film ◽  
Piston Skirt ◽  
Lubrication Oil ◽  
Good For ◽  
Motion Characteristics ◽  
Minimum Operating ◽  
Test Result

The piston dynamic simulation was carried out for the wear of the piston skirt after the test of gasoline engine. In addition, the second motion and wear are studied for the improvement proposal of different cylinder clearances. Results show when the original cylinder clearance is 0.0325–0.0575 mm, the minimum operating clearance of the piston skirt is smaller; it is not good for the formation of lubrication oil film, which causes wear on the thrust side and anti-thrust side of piston skirt. When the cylinder clearance was increased to 0.0400–0.0650 mm, the wear load on the thrust side and anti-thrust side of piston skirt was reduced by 68.3% and 68.1%, respectively, the effect of improved wear is better and the result coincides well with engine test result.

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