An unsteady mixed soft EHL model, with application to a rotary lip seal

Tribology International

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 646-651

  Shen, Dawei ^a   Salant, Richard F ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastohydrodynamic lubrication; Lip seals; Rotary seals

Indexed keywords

CAVITATION; DEFORMATION; SEALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CAVITATION AREA RATIO; HERTZIAN CONTACTS; LIP SEALS; ROTARY SEALS;

ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION;

EID: 33845210868     PISSN: 0301679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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