TY - GEN
T1 - Cavitation phenomena in pure-sliding grease EHL films
AU - Otsu, Takefumi
AU - Nagata, Yuichiro
AU - Sugimura, Joichi
AU - Glovnea, Romeo
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Grease lubricants are widely used in many machine elements which work in elastohydrodynamic (EHD) lubrication regime. They have advantages over lubricating oils, but are prone to starvation, especially when operating at large speeds. At the same time the complex nature of lubricating grease is little understood and only little knowledge about its chemistry and physics is accessible, which makes the prediction of grease film behavior difficult. In the present paper the relation between lubricating grease composition and operating parameters on one hand and the cavitation length on the other, was evaluated.
AB - Grease lubricants are widely used in many machine elements which work in elastohydrodynamic (EHD) lubrication regime. They have advantages over lubricating oils, but are prone to starvation, especially when operating at large speeds. At the same time the complex nature of lubricating grease is little understood and only little knowledge about its chemistry and physics is accessible, which makes the prediction of grease film behavior difficult. In the present paper the relation between lubricating grease composition and operating parameters on one hand and the cavitation length on the other, was evaluated.
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U2 - 10.1115/IJTC2010-41119
DO - 10.1115/IJTC2010-41119
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80054719201
SN - 9780791844199
T3 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Tribology Division, TRIB
SP - 127
EP - 129
BT - STLE/ASME 2010 International Joint Tribology Conference, IJTC2010
T2 - STLE/ASME 2010 International Joint Tribology Conference, IJTC2010
Y2 - 17 October 2010 through 20 October 2010
ER -