The measurement of liner - Piston skirt oil film thickness by an ultrasonic means

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Dwyer Joyce, R S ^a   Green, D A ^a   Harper, P ^a   Lewis, R ^a   Balakrishnan, S ^b   King, P D ^b   Rahnejat, H ^b   Howell Smith, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Perfect Bore Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINE CYLINDERS; FILM THICKNESS; LUBRICATING OILS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PISTONS;

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LUBRICANT FILM THICKNESS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; OIL FILM THICKNESS; PIEZO ELECTRICS; SINGLE CYLINDERS; ULTRASONIC PULSE;

ENGINE PISTONS;

EID: 85072443886     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2006-01-0648     Document Type: Conference Paper

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