scholarly journals True Stability of Lubricants Determined Using the Ball-on-Disk Test

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Maria Tortora ◽  
Deepak Halenahally Veeregowda

True stability of lubricants can be determined when there is minimum change in the contact area and also the intervention of wear debris in the contact zone. Here, we have used the ball-on-disk instrument with the migrating point contact, that is, relative motion between the ball and disk condition to fix the contact area and minimize the wear debris at the contact zone. The jump in the friction coefficient indicates the film failure, which appeared earlier for the motor oil 5W30 compared to 5W40. Such profile was not recorded in absence of relative motion. Therefore, 5W40 was considered to have a better lubricant stability than 5W30. Applying the same test condition to the natural lubricants shows that glycerol has better lubricant stability than glycerol-water mixture. Superior true lubricant stability by glycerol and 5W40 can be related to its high viscosity. However, they were less wear resistant compared to low viscosity lubricants like 5W30 and glycerol-water. We suspect the role of microscopic wear debris at the contact zone for this behavior although it should have been avoided in the migrating point contact condition. Overall, ball-on-disk instrument with a migrating point contact condition is an effective technique to determine the stability of lubricants.

2014 ◽  
Vol 574 ◽  
pp. 298-302
Author(s):  
Guo Jun Fan ◽  
Zhao Miao Liu ◽  
Feng Shen

The phenomena and behaviors of single droplet impacting on horizontal moving film have been studied by visual experiments, and the effects of viscosity and weber number (We) on the droplet impacting are analyzed. The experimental liquid is glycerol-water mixture with the volume fraction of glycerol 50%, 40%, 30%, and 10% respectively. We vary among 200 and 500. The results indicate that a higher viscosity plays an important role in hindering to droplet splashing, and the critical viscosity of splash increases with the increasing We. When We<242, the viscosity does not play a significant role to the height of the crown and the mid-jet. But when We>320, the jet height increases with the increasing We. The crown height of low viscosity liquid impacting significantly exceeds that of the high viscosity.


Author(s):  
Kazuyuki Yagi ◽  
Joichi Sugimura ◽  
Seiji Kajita ◽  
Toshihide Ohmori ◽  
Atsushi Suzuki

In the current work, scuffing phenomenon was investigated by a direct observation of a contact area. A ball-on-disc test rig was used, which produced a point contact area between a rotating sapphire disc and a stationary steel ball. Sequence of the friction and photograph in the contact area was synchronously obtained prior to and during occurrences of scuffing. Experiments were conducted in a dry condition and a lubricated condition with hexadecane. In the lubricated condition, wear debris accumulated in the inlet zone entered suddenly into the contact area to sharply increase the friction coefficient. On the other hand, macro plastic flow occurred in the whole contact area in the dry condition during a rapid increase in friction coefficient.


Author(s):  
Walter Sextro

Abstract The contact forces are dependent on many parameters, such as contact stiffnesses, surface profiles, material parameters, temperature distribution, relative motion and normal pressure distribution. These parameters can change within the contact area and from here, it is impossible to derive a general force law. The only possibility to overcome this problem is to discretize the contact areas, since in general the relative motion and the contact parameters are not constantly distributed within the contact surface. This leads to a point contact model, which has to include all main physical effects as described above, which are important, when simulating dynamical contact problems with friction. The friction model includes the main parameters such as the roughness of the contact surfaces, the nonlinear friction law, the contact stiffnesses in normal and tangential direction. The decreasing characteristic of the friction coefficient with respect to the relative velocity has to be modeled in a sufficient way. With respect to the dissipation of energy, the hysteretic behavior is studied with respect to the normal and tangential direction. Separation of the contact is included. This point contact model is be applied to real dynamical contact problems. In the first example, a simple impact oscillator with an elastic contact is used to check the overall modeling with respect to the elastic normal contact. Then, a self excited friction oscillator is investigated with respect to the tangential contact. Here, the modeling of surface waviness leads to high periodic solutions, which is also observed within the experiments. In both examples, the comparison of measurements and calculated phase plots is good. Furthermore, the influence of wear on to the surface profile, contact area and normal pressure distribution is investigated. From here, it follows, that friction leads to time dependent systems.


2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (7) ◽  
pp. 931-936
Author(s):  
Yafeng Zhang ◽  
Shaohua Zhang ◽  
Gang Zhou ◽  
Jiang Zhang ◽  
Tao Qing ◽  
...  

Purpose Random point-contact between the space bearing retainer and the rolling elements may cause wear of the space bearing retainer. The paper aims to clarify the friction and wear behaviors of polyimide bearing retainer under point-contact condition. Design/methodology/approach Space bearing retainers were cut into flat specimens and the tribological behaviors of the specimens were studied under point-contact condition using a friction and wear testing machine. Different sliding velocities and normal loads were used to simulate the running state of space bearing retainer. The wear behaviors of the space bearing retainer were analyzed by SEM and white light interferometer. Findings The friction coefficient of the polyimide composites decreased with increase in sliding velocity from 1  to 5 mm/s. Moreover, with increase in sliding velocity and normal load, the wear rate of the polyimide composites decreased and increased, respectively. Moreover, the wear behaviors of the polyimide composites were mainly determined by the combined actions of ploughing friction and adhesive friction. The lubricating properties of transfer film and wear debris were limited under point-contact condition. Practical implications The paper includes implications for the understanding of the wear mechanism of the polyimide composites space bearing retainer under point-contact condition and then to optimize space bearing retainer materials further. Originality/value Under point-contact condition, wear debris can hardly participate in the friction process because of limited contact area. Consequently, the wear debris has limited impact on the wear process to decrease the friction and wear. Peer review The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/ILT-01-2020-0017/


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
Ali Alrahlah ◽  
Abdel-Basit Al-Odayni ◽  
Haifa Fahad Al-Mutairi ◽  
Bashaer Mousa Almousa ◽  
Faisal S. Alsubaie ◽  
...  

This study aimed to synthesize new bisphenol A-glycidyl methacrylate (BisGMA) derivatives, targeting a reduction in its viscosity by substituting one of its OH groups, the leading cause of its high viscosity, with a chlorine atom. Hence, this monochloro-BisGMA (mCl-BisGMA) monomer was synthesized by Appel reaction procedure, and its structure was confirmed using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, 1H and 13C-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and mass spectroscopy. The viscosity of mCl-BisGMA (8.3 Pa·s) was measured under rheometry conditions, and it was found to be more than 65-fold lower than that of BisGMA (566.1 Pa·s) at 25 °C. For the assessment of the viscosity changes of model resins in the presence of mCl-BisGMA, a series of resin matrices, in which, besides BisGMA, 50 wt % was triethylene glycol dimethacrylate, were prepared and evaluated at 20, 25, and 35 °C. Thus, BisGMA was incrementally replaced by 25% mCl-BisGMA to obtain TBC0, TBC25, TBC50, TBC75, and TBC100 blends. The viscosity decreased with temperature, and the mCl-BisGMA content in the resin mixture increased. The substantial reduction in the viscosity value of mCl-BisGMA compared with that of BisGMA may imply its potential use as a dental resin matrix, either alone or in combination with traditional monomers. However, the various properties of mCl-BisGMA-containing matrices should be evaluated.


Aerospace ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Sicong Yu ◽  
Xufeng Zhang ◽  
Xiaoling Liu ◽  
Chris Rudd ◽  
Xiaosu Yi

In this concept-proof study, a preform-based RTM (Resin Transfer Molding) process is presented that is characterized by first pre-loading the solid curing agent onto the preform, and then injecting the liquid nonreactive resin with an intrinsically low viscosity into the mold to infiltrate and wet the pre-loaded preform. The separation of resin and hardener helped to process inherently high viscosity resins in a convenient way. Rosin-sourced, anhydrite-cured epoxies that would normally be regarded as unsuited to liquid composite molding, were thus processed. Rheological tests revealed that by separating the anhydrite curing agent from a formulated RTM resin system, the remaining epoxy liquid had its flowtime extended. C-scan and glass transition temperature tests showed that the preform pre-loaded with anhydrite was fully infiltrated and wetted by the liquid epoxy, and the two components were diffused and dissolved with each other, and finally, well reacted and cured. Composite laminates made via this approach exhibited roughly comparable quality and mechanical properties with prepreg controls via autoclave or compression molding, respectively. These findings were verified for both carbon and ramie fiber composites.


2014 ◽  
Vol 783-786 ◽  
pp. 2537-2540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Sunada ◽  
Norio Nunomura ◽  
Sayaka Hirata ◽  
Naoki Nagase

Since Fe-Cu-C sintered steels are easily rusted, they are coated with rust preventive oils. High viscosity of those rust preventive oils decrease workability, and low viscosity deteriorates rust preventive performance. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new rust preventive oils with contradictory properties of low viscosity and superior rust prevention. However, precise methodology to evaluate rust prevention ability has not been established. In this study, we developed new technique to quantitatively evaluate rust prevention ability by measuring the open circuit potential through thin corrosive solution on Fe-Cu-C sintered steels coated with a rust preventive oils. As a result, the ability for rust prevention can be measured quantitatively, and it decreases slowly over time, with repeating destruction and restoration. Furthermore, it was found that the deteriorating processes of rust prevention ability for rust prevention oils are composed of three characteristics steps respectively. That is, in the first step the great open circuit potential changes from 0V to-0.3V with repetition were observed where the excellent rust prevention ability was kept, in the second step it decreases slowly from-0.1V to-0.4V with oscillation of the small potential changes where the gradual decrease of rust prevention ability was recognized and in the third step it decreases monotonously in the lower potential than-0.4V where the rust was observed because of the remarkable deteriorating of the rust prevention ability.


2015 ◽  
Vol 642 ◽  
pp. 212-216
Author(s):  
Yi Haung ◽  
Chin Chung Wei

Ball screw is a high-precision and high performance linear drive of mechanical elements. The frictional heat of internal components what is very significant impact for platform transmission in high speed and the high axial load and causes the thermal expansion of element. In this research , the influence of different greases on ball screw is investigated in thermal rising of nut and driving torque in high speed and high axial load. A vertical motion platform was used for driving performance test. Thermal rising of nut of ball screw and the variance of transmission torque whose lubricated by high viscosity base oil grease is significant larger than the lower one. High viscosity grease is not easy to carry out the friction heat generated at ball and raceway contact area due to the bad flowing properties. It also has more serious wear occurred at contact area and high friction force, whose causes the large variance of transmission torque.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1028 ◽  
pp. 346-351
Author(s):  
Soni Setiadji ◽  
Zulfi Mofa Agasa ◽  
Diba G Auliya ◽  
Fitrilawati ◽  
Norman Syakir ◽  
...  

Duration of use and injectability are external factors for Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) that needs to be considered when PDMS utilized as a vitreous substituted liquid in vitreoretinal surgery. In general, PDMS which has been used as a substitute for vitreous humour is PDMS with a low viscosity in the value about 1000 cSt and a high viscosity at a value of about 5000 cSt. Various deficiencies have been encountered from low and high viscosity of PDMS, causing research to be continued to obtain PDMS which has suitable properties as a substitute for vitreous humour. One of them is research to obtain medium viscosity of PDMS with a viscosity value of about 2000 cSt. Here, we reported synthesis and characterization of PDMS with medium viscosity in ranges from 1800 to 2600 mPas. PDMS was synthesized through Ring-Opening Polymerization (ROP) pathway using the monomer of Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) and the chain terminator of Hexamethyldisiloxane (MM). Various concentrations of potassium hydroxide (KOH) of 3, 4, 6 and 8 %(w/v) were applied as initiator to form gel of PDMS. All synthesized PDMS samples were identified to have viscosity values of 1800-2600 mPas, refractive index values of 1.4042-1.4044 and surface tension values of 22-23 mN/m. Meanwhile, the results of Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) measurement showed that the absorption peaks were similar to that of our previous report.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
KR Kantovitz ◽  
LL Cabral ◽  
NR Carlos ◽  
AZ de Freitas ◽  
DC Peruzzo ◽  
...  

SUMMARY The aim of this in vitro study was to quantitatively evaluate the internal gap of resin composites of high-and low-viscosity used in single- and incremental-fill techniques in Class I cavities exposed to thermal cycling (TC) using optical coherence tomography (OCT). Cavities of 4-mm depth and 3-mm diameter were prepared in 36 third molars randomly distributed into four groups, according to viscosity of restorative resin-based composite (high or low viscosity, all from 3M Oral Care) and technique application (bulk or incremental fill) used (n=9): RC, high-viscosity, incremental-fill, resin-based composite (Filtek Z350 XT Universal Restorative); BF, high-viscosity, bulk-fill, resin-based composite (Filtek One Bulk Fill); LRC, low-viscosity, incremental-fill, resin-based composite (Filtek Z350 XT Flowable Universal Restorative); and LBF, low-viscosity, bulk-fill, resin-based composite (Filtek Flowable Restorative). Single Bond Universal Adhesive system (3M Oral Care) was used in all the experimental groups. The incremental-fill technique was used for RC and LRC groups (2-mm increments), and a single-layer technique was used for BF and LBF groups, as recommended by the manufacturer. The internal adaptation of the resin at all dentin walls was evaluated before and after TC (5000 cycles between 5°C and 55°C) using OCT images. Five images of each restored tooth were obtained. Images were analyzed using ImageJ software that measured the entire length of the gaps at the dentin–restoration interface. The length of gaps (μm) was analyzed using two-way repeated measures ANOVA and the Tukey tests (α=0.05). There was a significant interaction between material types and TC (p=0.006), and a significant difference among all material types (p&lt;0.0001), before and after TC (p&lt;0.0001). Increased internal gaps at the dentin–restoration interface were noticed after TC for all groups. RC presented the lowest value of internal gap before and after TC, while LBF showed the highest values of internal gap after TC. In conclusion, TC negatively affected the integrity of internal gap, whereas high-viscosity, incremental-fill, resin-based composite presented better performance in terms of internal adaptation than low-viscosity, bulk-fill materials in Class I cavities.


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