Evaluation of EHD films by electrical capacitance

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 45, Issue 38, 2012, Pages

  Jablonka, Karolina ^a   Glovnea, Romeo ^a   Bongaerts, Jeroen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b SKF ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACTING SURFACES; CONTINUOUS FILMS; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE; ELECTRICAL METHODS; FILM FORMATIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC EFFECT; LUBRICANT FILM THICKNESS; LUBRICATED CONTACTS; LUBRICATION REGIMES; MACHINE ELEMENT; METALLIC CONTACTS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL METHODS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; STEEL-ON-STEEL CONTACT; THEORETICAL MODELS;

FILM THICKNESS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION;

EID: 84866001415     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/45/38/385301     Document Type: Article

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