Practical challenges in determining piston ring friction

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 112-125

  Liao, Kai ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Kim, Dallwoo ^a   Urzua, Paulo ^b   Tian, Tian ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b VOLKSWAGEN AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deterministic model; Friction; Lubrication; Piston ring; Surface variation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LUBRICATIONS; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; LUBRICATION REGIMES; MULTI-POINT CORRELATIONS; PISTON RING FRICTION; PISTON SKIRT FRICTION; SURFACE VARIATIONS; TWIN-LAND OIL CONTROL;

ENGINES; EXPERIMENTS; FRICTION; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; LUBRICATION; PISTON RINGS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

TRIBOLOGY;

EID: 84877857079     PISSN: 13506501     EISSN: 2041305X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350650112465364     Document Type: Article

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