On the chaotic behavior of grease lubrication in rolling bearings

Tribology Transactions

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 581-590

  Lugt, Piet M ^a   Velickov, Slavco ^a   Tripp, John H ^a  

^a SKF ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dynamic modeling; EHL with greases; Grease application; Greases; Rolling bearings; Starvation in EHL

Indexed keywords

EID: 68549110416     PISSN: 10402004     EISSN: 1547397X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10402000902825713     Document Type: Article

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