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Combined lubricant-surface system perspective: multi-scale numerical-experimental investigation
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posted on 2017-01-06, 11:20 authored by Michael Leighton, Thomas A. Nicholls, Miguel De la Cruz, Ramin RahmaniRamin Rahmani, Homer RahnejatFrictional losses are one of the main causes of reduced energy efficiency in all machines and mechanisms. In particular,
there is mounting pressure upon manufacturers of all forms of vehicle to comply with increasingly stringent legislation
and directives with regard to harmful emissions. Therefore, reduction of friction has become an imperative issue. The
traditional approach of dealing with surface material and lubricant formulation in isolation has been replaced by a
lubricant–surface system approach. This paper presents multi-scale experimentation from nano/meso-scale lateral
force microscopy of ultra-thin surface adsorbed films through to micro-scale precision sliding tribometry to investigate
lubricant–surface friction optimisation within the mixed regime of lubrication, using lubricants with different organic and
inorganic friction modifying species. These affect the parameters of the system, commonly used as input to models for
mixed and boundary regimes of lubrication. Therefore, the precise measurement of these parameters at different
physical scales is important. The study also makes use of detailed numerical predictions at micro-scale through combined
solution of the average Reynolds equation as well as interaction of wetted asperities in mixed and boundary regimes
of lubrication. Good agreement is found between the predictions and measurements at micro-scale tribometric interactions.
Furthermore, the same trends are observed in testing across the physical scales.
Funding
The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for the sponsorship of this research under the Encyclopaedic Program Grant (www. encyclopaedic.org).
History
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- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
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Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering TribologyVolume
231Issue
7Pages
910-924Citation
LEIGHTON, M. ... et al., 2017. Combined lubricant-surface system perspective: multi-scale numerical-experimental investigation. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part J, Journal of Engineering Tribology, 231(7), pp.910-924.Publisher
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