Capacitive Coulter counting: Detection of metal wear particles in lubricant using a microfluidic device

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Murali, Srinidhi ^a   Xia, Xingao ^a   Jagtiani, Ashish V ^a   Carletta, Joan ^a   Zhe, Jiang ^a  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASIVE PARTICLES; CAPACITANCE CHANGE; COULTER COUNTING; DESIGN CONCEPT; FLUIDIC CHANNELS; LUBRICANT OIL; METAL DEBRIS; METAL PARTICLE; METAL WEAR; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; RAPID DETECTION; TESTING RESULTS;

ALUMINA; CAPACITANCE; DEBRIS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; LUBRICATING OILS; METALS; MICROFLUIDICS;

METAL TESTING;

EID: 68549121133     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/18/3/037001     Document Type: Article

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