Piston and piston ring of internal combustion engine

2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (9) ◽  
pp. 16
Keyword(s):  
Internal Combustion Engine ◽  
Piston Ring ◽  
Combustion Engine ◽  
Internal Combustion

Influence of positive texturing on friction and wear properties of piston ring-cylinder liner tribo pair under lubricated conditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venkateswara Babu P. ◽  
Ismail Syed ◽  
Satish Ben Beera
Keyword(s):  
Wear Resistance ◽  
Internal Combustion Engine ◽  
Friction And Wear ◽  
Piston Ring ◽  
Combustion Engine ◽  
Cylinder Liner ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Tribological Performance ◽  
Friction Reduction ◽  
Content Type

Purpose In an internal combustion engine, piston ring-cylinder liner tribo pair is one among the most critical rubbing pairs. Most of the energy produced by an internal combustion engine is dissipated as frictional losses of which major portion is contributed by the piston ring-cylinder liner tribo pair. Hence, proper design of tribological parameters of piston ring-cylinder liner pair is essential and can effectively reduce the friction and wear, thereby improving the tribological performance of the engine. This paper aims to use surface texturing, an effective and feasible method, to improve the tribological performance of piston ring-cylinder liner tribo pair. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, influence of positive texturing (protruding) on friction reduction and wear resistance of piston ring surfaces was studied. The square-shaped positive textures were fabricated on piston ring surface by chemical etching method, and the experiments were conducted with textured piston ring surfaces against un-textured cylinder liner surface on pin-on-disc apparatus by continuous supply of lubricant at the inlet of contact zone. The parameters varied in this study are area density and normal load at a constant sliding speed. A comparison was made between the tribological properties of textured and un-textured piston ring surfaces. Findings From the experimental results, the tribological performance of the textured piston ring-cylinder liner tribo pair was significantly improved over a un-textured tribo pair. A maximum friction reduction of 67.6 per cent and wear resistance of 81.6 per cent were observed with textured ring surfaces as compared to un-textured ring surfaces. Originality/value This experimental study is helpful for better understanding of the potency of positive texturing on friction reduction and wear resistance of piston ring-cylinder liner tribo pair under lubricated sliding conditions.

Coupled Model of Partially Flooded Lubrication and Oil Vaporization in an Internal Combustion Engine

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boon-Keat Chui ◽  
Harold J. Schock ◽  
Andrew M. Fedewa ◽  
Dan E. Richardson ◽  
Terry Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Internal Combustion Engine ◽  
Piston Ring ◽  
Fuel Injection ◽  
Combustion Engine ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Injection Timing ◽  
Oil Viscosity ◽  
Engine Operation ◽  
Extreme Stress ◽  
Compression Ring

The cylinder-kit assembly of an internal combustion engine experiences severe conditions during engine operation. The top compression ring, in particular, undergoes extreme stress directly from cylinder gas pressure, inertial and thermal loads. The top compression ring is often the most significantly affected piston ring, and one of the common resultant phenomena is high wear on the ring/bore surfaces. In many previous studies, the modeling of tribological phenomena at the top compression ring/bore region involves hydrodynamic and boundary lubrication, friction and wear. This present work accounts for an additional factor that may affect the piston ring/bore lubrication — the lubricant evaporative effect. A three-dimensional oil evaporative analysis is coupled into the calculation of mixed lubrication in a cyclic engine computation. The presence of the evaporation analysis allows the study of the temperature influence on the piston ring/bore lubrication in addition to its effect on oil viscosity. A prospective application of this model is in diesel engine analysis. Considering the broad operating range of modern diesel fuel injection systems, the injection timing can be made throughout the compression/expansion process. It is well demonstrated that certain areas of fuel injection operation can result in potential adverse consequences such as increased bore wear. A well known example is “bore wall fuel wetting.” Given concerns around the potential for wear-inducing interactions between the fuel injection plumes and the bore wall, we have explored a particular interaction: bore wear in response to an imposed local heating of the bore wall. The simulation result provides valuable insights on this interaction, in which higher bore wear is predicted around bore wall area with locally imposed wall heating.

Metal Transfer from Piston Rings to Cylinders during “Run-in”

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-175
Author(s):  
C. D. Strang ◽  
J. T. Burwell
Keyword(s):  
Internal Combustion Engine ◽  
Cylinder Head ◽  
Piston Ring ◽  
Combustion Engine ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Cylinder Wall ◽  
Piston Rings ◽  
Engine Operation ◽  
Small Water ◽  
Engine Cylinder

Piston rings with radio-active wearing-surfaces were used to study the micro-welding between rings and cylinder wall during “run-in” in a small, water-cooled, internal combustion engine. The results indicated that micro-welding and the accompanying transfer of metal were present under the mildest conditions of engine operation, including motoring with the engine cylinder-head removed. The distribution of micro-welding along the ring-travel was found to correspond to the wear profile observed in engine cylinders by other workers. Such transferred material may play a part in the formation of the “glazed” layer which is said to be present on “run-in” cylinder walls and rings. The presence of transferred metal at all points along the ring-travel indicates that the piston ring was not fully supported by a hydrodynamic oil film of sufficient thickness to separate completely the surfaces of the ring and the cylinder wall.

The Simple Model of the Oil Film Thickness between Piston Ring and Cylinder

2010 ◽  
Vol 97-101 ◽  
pp. 1239-1242
Author(s):  
De Liang Liu ◽  
Hui Biao Lu ◽  
C.G. Sun
Keyword(s):  
Film Thickness ◽  
Internal Combustion Engine ◽  
Piston Ring ◽  
Reynolds Equation ◽  
Combustion Engine ◽  
Friction Pair ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Lubricating Oil ◽  
Oil Film

Piston ring-cylinder is one of the most important friction pair of internal combustion engine，the lubricating state between them has decided internal combustion engine lubrication quality. So the theoretical research to the lubricating characteristics of the piston-ring group, especially the calculation of the lubricating oil film thickness is very important. The oil film thickness between piston-ring and cylinder is studied by calculation method. The calculation program is developed with average Reynolds equation taken the surface topography, viscosity-temperature effect, viscosity-pressure effect, extrusion effect and other factors into account. The position of oil outlet point is preinstalled, the full lubrication is assumed, and the Reynolds equation is solved by full pivot element gausses elimination approach, so the iterative course and calculation workload are reduced, and a great lot of the calculating time is saved, the oil film thickness of full period can be more accurately predicted by the ordinary PC within 30 minutes, which can supply quick effective evidence for next calculation and analysis.

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