Modeling of line contacts with degrading lubricant

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 513-522

  Kudish, Ilya I ^a   Airapetyan, Ruben G ^a  

^a KETTERING UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOHYDRODYNAMICS; FRICTION; LUBRICANTS; POLYMERS; STRESSES;

LINE CONTACTS;

TRIBOLOGY;

ADDITIVE; CONTACT; DEGRADATION; ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION; FLUID FLOW; KINETIC THEORY; MODELING; POLYMER;

EID: 0037997545     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1538193     Document Type: Article

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