An experimental and numerical investigation of frictional losses and film thickness for four cylinder liner variants for a heavy duty diesel engine

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

Volumn 227, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1319-1333

  Spencer, Andrew ^a   Avan, Emin Yusuf ^b   Almqvist, Andreas ^a   Dwyer Joyce, Rob S ^b   Larsson, Roland ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cylinder liner; Honing; Piston ring; Tungsten disulphide; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE SURFACE ROUGHNESS; CYLINDER LINERS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HEAVY-DUTY DIESEL ENGINE; LUBRICATING CONDITION; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; TUNGSTEN DISULPHIDE; ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUES;

CERAMIC COATINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIESEL ENGINES; EXPERIMENTS; FILM THICKNESS; FRICTION; HONING; PISTON RINGS; PLASMA SPRAYING; TRIBOLOGY; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES);

EID: 84889074070     PISSN: 13506501     EISSN: 2041305X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350650113491244     Document Type: Article

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