Determination of Bearing Oil Film Thickness (BOFT) for various engine oils in an automotive gasoline engine using capacitance measurements and analytical predictions

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Tseregounis, Spyros I ^a   Viola, Michael B ^a   Paranjpe, Rohit S ^a  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; ENGINES; FILM THICKNESS; ISOMERS; LUBRICATING OILS; VISCOSITY;

ABSOLUTE MINIMUM; ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; AUTOMOTIVE GASOLINES; CAPACITANCE METHOD; CONNECTING ROD BEARINGS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OIL FILM THICKNESS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

CONNECTING RODS;

EID: 85072465859     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/982661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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