Film Thickness of Mechanically Worked Lubricating Grease at Very Low Speeds

Tribology Transactions

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1066-1071

  Cen, Hui ^a   Lugt, Piet M ^a,b   Morales Espejel, Guillermo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b SKF ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Grease Aging; Grease Film Thickness; Grease Life; Very Low Speed

Indexed keywords

FILM THICKNESS; INTERFEROMETRY; LUBRICATING OILS; SPEED;

AGING PROCESS; AGING TIME; BASE OIL; DISC MACHINES; LOW SPEED; ROLL STABILITY;

LUBRICATING GREASES;

EID: 84908009419     PISSN: 10402004     EISSN: 1547397X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10402004.2014.933936     Document Type: Article

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