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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kaneta, M
• Ozaki, S
• Nishikawa, H
• Guo, F

Titel

Effects of impact loads on point contact elastohydrodynamic lubrication films

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part J, Journal of engineering tribology, 2007-03, Vol.221 (3), p.271-278

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract The behaviours of point contact elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) films under impact loads are investigated by direct observations using the optical interferometry technique. It has been found that when the initial impact gap is large, a central dimple is formed and the maximum film thickness occurs at the centre of the contact region. When the initial impact gap becomes small, a periphery dimple is generated and the maximum film thickness occurs at the contact periphery. When impact is applied to an oily Hertzian contact, the maximum film thickness of the periphery dimple is determined by the increasing rate of the Hertzian contact radius. The impact load under rolling/sliding conditions results in a crescent-shaped oil entrapment originally at the inlet of the EHL conjunction, which passes through the EHL conjunction approximately at the entrainment velocity. Some numerical results are also presented to show that the experimental observation in the periphery region is induced by the local squeeze effect.