Roller sliding in engine valve train: Effect of oil film thickness considering lubricant composition

2020 ◽  
Vol 149 ◽  
pp. 105829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Khurram ◽  
Riaz Ahmad Mufti ◽  
Muhammad Usman Bhutta ◽  
Naqash Afzal ◽  
Muhammad Usman Abdullah ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 805-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Khurram ◽  
Riaz Ahmad Mufti ◽  
Muhammad Usman Bhutta ◽  
Yousaf Habib ◽  
Arslan Ahmed ◽  
...  

A numerical approach basing on friction and lubrication analysis has been developed to determine the creep at cam/roller interface in end pivoted roller finger follower valve train. The kinematic and dynamic analysis at the geometrical mating surfaces of cam and roller follower has been carried out to predict the required instantaneous motion parameters and normal loading whereas the oil film thickness is determined using lubrication analysis. The tangential forces have been computed precisely using elastohydrodynamic and mixed lubrication concept for a complete cam cycle. At low camshaft operating speeds, the creep proves to be low whereas the creep increases significantly under the influence of high tangential loading at higher operating speeds.


1949 ◽  
Vol 161 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cameron

In this paper the relation of surface roughness of bearing surfaces to allowable film thickness is studied quantitatively with a simple Michell pad apparatus. The pads used were faced with white metal and ran against mild steel collars. The lubricants studied were water, soap solution, paraffin, and light oil. There was little difference in the frictional behaviour of any of the lubricants, except that the aqueous lubricants would not run with very finely finished steel surfaces. The onset of metal to metal contact was detected by an increase in the frictional drag, and also by the change in electrical conductivity between the pad and collar—an extremely sensitive method. The paper shows that there is, at any rate for this system, a quantitative relation between the total surface roughness of the rubbing surfaces and the calculated oil film thickness both at the initial metal to metal contact and seizure. Initial contact occurs when the outlet film thickness, calculated from normal hydrodynamic theory, falls to three times the maximum surface roughness and seizure occurs when it is double the average roughness.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Wang ◽  
C. H. Venner ◽  
A. A. Lubrecht

The effect of single-sided and double-sided harmonic surface waviness on the film thickness, pressure, and temperature oscillations in an elastohydrodynamically lubricated eccentric-tappet pair has been investigated in relation to the eccentricity and the waviness wavelength. The results show that, during one working cycle, the waviness causes significant fluctuations of the oil film, pressure, and temperature, as well as a reduction in minimum film thickness. Smaller wavelength causes more dramatic variations in oil film. The fluctuations of the pressure, film thickness, temperature, and traction coefficient caused by double-sided waviness are nearly the same compared with the single-sided waviness, but the variations are less intense.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasir Hassan Ali ◽  
Roslan Abd Rahman ◽  
Raja Ishak Raja Hamzah

The thickness of an oil film lubricant can contribute to less gear tooth wear and surface failure. The purpose of this research is to use artificial neural network (ANN) computational modelling to correlate spur gear data from acoustic emissions, lubricant temperature, and specific film thickness (λ). The approach is using an algorithm to monitor the oil film thickness and to detect which lubrication regime the gearbox is running either hydrodynamic, elastohydrodynamic, or boundary. This monitoring can aid identification of fault development. Feed-forward and recurrent Elman neural network algorithms were used to develop ANN models, which are subjected to training, testing, and validation process. The Levenberg-Marquardt back-propagation algorithm was applied to reduce errors. Log-sigmoid and Purelin were identified as suitable transfer functions for hidden and output nodes. The methods used in this paper shows accurate predictions from ANN and the feed-forward network performance is superior to the Elman neural network.


2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 282-290
Author(s):  
Junchao Zhu ◽  
Haiyu Qian ◽  
Huabing Wen ◽  
Liangyan Zheng ◽  
Hanhua Zhu

ABSTRACT This paper investigates journal bearings, and builds a lubrication model taking into account misalignment, the lubricant couple stress effect and shear thinning. In order to explore the sensitivity of couple stress fluid lubrication performance to oil film thickness, we introduce the critical oil film thickness coefficient. The results show that the sensitivity increases with the increase of the couple stress coefficient, and it is highest in the area of minimum oil film thickness. Compared with a parallel journal, increases in the misalignment angle strengthen the effect of couple stress. Shear thinning also plays an important role in bearing lubrication performance. For a low oil inlet temperature, the effect of shear thinning increases with the increase of the couple stress parameter. For a high oil inlet temperature, the influence is negligible. An increase in the misalignment angle will not further enhance the effect of shear thinning.


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