The Influence of Lubricant Visco-Plastic Character on the Line Contact EHL Under High Sliding Speeds

1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianming Wang ◽  
H. H. Zhang ◽  
S. H. Wang
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Petrone ◽  
Adolfo Senatore ◽  
Vincenzo D'Agostino

This paper presents the application of an improved Yasutomi correlation for lubricant viscosity at high pressure in a Newtonian elastohydrodynamic line contact simulation. According to recent experimental studies using high pressure viscometers, the Yasutomi pressure-viscosity relationship derived from the free-volume model closely represents the real lubricant piezoviscous behavior for the high pressure typically encountered in elastohydrodynamic applications. However, the original Yasutomi correlation suffers from the appearance of a zero in the function describing the pressure dependence of the relative free volume thermal expansivity. In order to overcome this drawback, a new formulation of the Yasutomi relation was recently developed by Bair et al. This new function removes these concerns and provides improved precision without the need for an equation of state. Numerical simulations have been performed using the improved Yasutomi model to predict the lubricant pressure-viscosity, the pressure distribution, and the film thickness behavior in a Newtonian EHL simulation of a squalane-lubricated line contact. This work also shows that this model yields a higher viscosity at the low-pressure area, which results in a larger central film thickness compared with the previous piezoviscous relations.


1971 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. D. Wedeven ◽  
D. Evans ◽  
A. Cameron

Elastohydrodynamic oil film measurements for rolling point contact under starvation conditions are obtained using optical interferometry. The experimental measurements present a reasonably clear picture of the starvation phenomenon and are shown to agree with theoretical predictions. Starvation inhibits the generation of pressure and, therefore, reduces film thickness. It also causes the overall pressure, stress, and elastic deformation to become more Hertzian. Additional experiments using interferometry illustrate: the cavitation pattern, lubricant entrapment, grease lubrication, ball spin, and edge effects in line contact.


Author(s):  
S H Wu ◽  
S J Tsai

A novel design for skew conical involute gear drives in approximate line contact is proposed. Such a drive has a contact ellipse with a large major-to-minor-axis ratio, which allows it to overcome the weakness of conical gear drives for application in power transmission. This gearing design approach is characterized by reduced edge contact sensitivity and increased surface durability. The edge contact sensitivity that can arise with this kind of gear drive due to assembly or manufacturing errors is evaluated by analysing the value of the shift of the line of action caused by such errors. The surface durability is evaluated by calculating the Hertz stress. Some guidelines are developed based on the analysis of the influence of the gearing parameters on the edge contact sensitivity and the surface durability made possible using this design approach for conical gear drives in the approximate line contact. The guidelines are summarized and, finally, a practical example is given to demonstrate the feasibility of the approximate line contact design.


2014 ◽  
Vol 592-594 ◽  
pp. 1371-1375
Author(s):  
Nitesh Talekar ◽  
Punit Kumar

Consideration of surface roughness in steady state EHL line contact is the first step towards understanding the lubrication of rough surface problem. Current paper investigates the use of sinusoidal waviness in the contact; more precisely it gives performance of real fluid in EHL line contact. The effect of various parameters like rolling velocity (U) and maximum Hertzian pressure (ph) on surface roughness by using properties of linear and exponential piezo-viscosity is taken into consideration to evaluate behavior of pressure distribution of load carrying fluid film and film thickness. Full isothermal, Newtonian simulation of EHL problem gives described effects. Spiking or fluctuation of pressure and film thickness curves is expected to show presence of irregularities on the surface chosen and amount of fluctuation depends on certain parameters and intensity of irregularities present. Rolling side domain of-4.5 ≤ X ≤ 1.5 with grid size ∆X=0.01375 is selected. A computer code is developed to solve Reynolds equation, which governs the generation of pressure in the lubricated contact zone is discritized and solved along with load balance equation using Newton-Raphson technique.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1010-1012 ◽  
pp. 1376-1379
Author(s):  
Fu Lai Li ◽  
Wen Shuai Li ◽  
Zhong Feng Duan ◽  
Yan Deng

A large number of dawsonite-bearing sandstones has been found in Dongying Sag of Bohai Bay basin. The petrological characteristics of these sandstones, such as the framework clastic composition, cements, authigenic minerals and diagenetic paragenesis succession are investigated by polarizing microscope, SEM, and Alizarin Red-S staining etc. The results show that these kinds of dawsonite-bearing sandstone are feldspathic sandstone or debris-feldspar sandstone with mainly fine or fine to medium particle size, poor to mediocre sorting features, poor psephicity and dot-line contact. The cements and authigenic minerals are dominated by overgrowth quartz, dawsonite, calcite, ferrocalcite, ankerite and clay minerals. The amount of dawsonite accounts for 15% by volume. The paragenesis sequence are illite/montmorillonite mixing layer, kaolinite, overgrowth quartz-calcite, ferrocalcite, dawsonite and ankerite.


2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao He ◽  
Jiaxu Wang ◽  
Zhanjiang Wang ◽  
Dong Zhu

Line contact is common in many machine components, such as various gears, roller and needle bearings, and cams and followers. Traditionally, line contact is modeled as a two-dimensional (2D) problem when the surfaces are assumed to be smooth or treated stochastically. In reality, however, surface roughness is usually three-dimensional (3D) in nature, so that a 3D model is needed when analyzing contact and lubrication deterministically. Moreover, contact length is often finite, and realistic geometry may possibly include a crowning in the axial direction and round corners or chamfers at two ends. In the present study, plasto-elastohydrodynamic lubrication (PEHL) simulations for line contacts of both infinite and finite length have been conducted, taking into account the effects of surface roughness and possible plastic deformation, with a 3D model that is needed when taking into account the realistic contact geometry and the 3D surface topography. With this newly developed PEHL model, numerical cases are analyzed in order to reveal the PEHL characteristics in different types of line contact.


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