Publication detail

Investigation of the Lubricant Fluid-Flow in EHL Contact using Particle Tracking

GALAS, R. ŠPERKA, P. OMASTA, M. HARTL, M. KŘUPKA, I.

Original Title

Investigation of the Lubricant Fluid-Flow in EHL Contact using Particle Tracking

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

In high loaded non-conformal contacts, lubrication is necessary to ensure low energy consumption and long durability. An elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) is of great a importance in many machine elements (gears; cams, rolling element bearings etc.). During the last decades a number of experimental methods for lubricating film thickness, pressure and temperature distributions were developed; however, only a little was published about fluid-flow through EHL contact. The purpose of this paper is to present an experimental approach ena-bling through-thickness fluid flow investigation in thin-film lubricated non-conformal contacts. This approach is based on the particle tracking method with the usage of high-speed camera and the ball-on-disc tribometer. This experimental approach was already validated by the initial experiment with silver nano-flakes particles.

Keywords

EHL contact; fluid flow; particle tracking method; ball-on-disc

Authors

GALAS, R.; ŠPERKA, P.; OMASTA, M.; HARTL, M.; KŘUPKA, I.

RIV year

2015

Released

9. 9. 2015

Publisher

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

Location

Nitra

ISBN

978-80-552-1377-4

Book

Book of Proceedings of 56th International Conference of Machine Design Departments

Edition

First

Edition number

1

Pages from

353

Pages to

356

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT116752,
  author="Radovan {Galas} and Petr {Šperka} and Milan {Omasta} and Martin {Hartl} and Ivan {Křupka}",
  title="Investigation of the Lubricant Fluid-Flow in EHL Contact using Particle Tracking",
  booktitle="Book of Proceedings of 56th International Conference of Machine Design Departments",
  year="2015",
  series="First",
  number="1",
  pages="353--356",
  publisher="Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra",
  address="Nitra",
  isbn="978-80-552-1377-4"
}