Grease lubrication of roller bearings in railway waggons. Part 1: Field tests and systematic evaluation to determine the optimal greases

Industrial Lubrication and Tribology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 36-43

  Lundberg, Jan ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bearings; Friction; Greases; Lubrication; Wear

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034127473     PISSN: 00368792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00368790010308410     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Hamnelid, L. (1990), "Amazing grease or finding the right way to consistency", presented at the 57th Annual NLGI Meeting, Denver, CO, October 1990.
2. Komatsuzaki, S., Uematsu, T. and Nakano, F. (1987), "Bearing damage by electrical wear and its effect on deterioration of lubricating greases", Journal of the American Society of Lubricating Engineers, Vol. 43 No. 1, pp. 25-30.
3. Lundberg, J. and Höglund, E. (1998), "A new method for determining the mechanical stability of lubricating greases", Proc. AUSTRIB, December 1998.
4. Lundberg, J. and McFadden, T. (1996a), "Low temperature performance rating criteria for lubrication greases", Proc. ASCE Cold Regions Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, August 1996, pp. 153-72.
5. Lundberg, J. and McFadden, T. (1996b), "Creep transport of grease subjected to low frequency vibrations", Lubrication Science, Vol. 9 No. 1, November, pp. 71-83.
6. National Lubricating Grease Institute (1996), Lubricating Grease Guide, 4th ed., Kansas City, MO.
7. Pahl, G. and Beitz, W. (1996), Engineering Design, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York, NY.
8. Prashad, H. (1998), "Diagnosis and cause analysis of rolling-element bearing failure in electrical power equipment due to current passage", Lubrication Engineering, May 1999.
9. Tallian, T.E. (1992), Failure Atlas for Hertz Contact Machine Elements, ASME Press, New York, NY.
10. Wills, J.G. (1980), Lubrication Fundamentals, Marcel Dekker, New York, NY and Basel, pp. 29-30.