Design of capacitance probes for oil film thickness measurements between the piston ring and liner in internal combustion engines

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 633-643

  Ducu, D O ^a   Donahue, R J ^a   Ghandhi, J B ^a  

^a Detroit Diesel Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ERRORS; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PERMITTIVITY; PISTON RINGS; SHIELDING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SURFACE AREA;

CAPACITANCE;

COMBUSTION; ENGINE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OIL FILM; PISTON RING;

EID: 0035412787     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1368116     Document Type: Article

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5. Direct calibration of LIF measurements of the oil film thickness using the capacitance technique
6. The starved lubrication of piston rings in a diesel engine