Lubricant film thickness and friction force measurements in a laser surface textured reciprocating line contact simulating the piston ring-liner pairing

Tribology International

Volumn 98, Issue , 2016, Pages 317-329

  Vlədescu, Sorin Cristian ^a   Medina, Simon ^a   Olver, Andrew V ^a   Pegg, Ian G ^b   Reddyhoff, Tom ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical interferometry; Piston rings; Surface texture; Thin film lubrication

Indexed keywords

ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION; FILM THICKNESS; FRICTION; INTERFEROMETRY; LUBRICATION; OIL WELL CASINGS; PISTON RINGS; PISTONS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS; TRIBOLOGY; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

FRICTION FORCE MEASUREMENT; LUBRICANT FILM THICKNESS; LUBRICANT TEMPERATURE; MULTIPLE INTERFERENCES; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL-INTERFEROMETRY APPROACH; SURFACE TEXTURES; THIN FILM LUBRICATION;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 84961221380     PISSN: 0301679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2016.02.026     Document Type: Article

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