A film thickness correction formula for double-newtonian shear-thinning in rolling EHL circular contacts

Tribology Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-66

  Habchi, W ^a,b   Bair, S ^b   Qureshi, F ^c   Covitch, M ^c  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LUBRIZOL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastohydrodynamic; Film thickness; Non Newtonian; Pressure viscosity coefficient; Rheology

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY VISCOMETERS; CORRECTION FORMULAS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NON-NEWTONIAN; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POLYMERIC THICKENERS; PRESSURE-VISCOSITY COEFFICIENT; SHEAR-DEPENDENT VISCOSITY;

ELASTOHYDRODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FILM THICKNESS; LUBRICANTS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR THINNING; VISCOMETERS; VISCOSITY; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION;

EID: 84875215896     PISSN: 10238883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-012-0078-6     Document Type: Article

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