Wear simulation in lubricated contacts considering wear-dependent surface topography changes
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Along with friction, wear in lubricated contacts is one of the most essential design criteria. The use of low-viscosity lubricants, as well as changing operating conditions, may lead to the wear-causing operating condition of mixed friction. For wear assessment, in the last decades numerical simulations have been confirmed as a powerful tool. The level of detail of the simulation model has a significant influence on the simulation results. The local wear heights for a hydrodynamic journal bearing under constant operating conditions are calculated numerically. A variant study is used to determine the influence of elastic deformation, cavitation model and the consideration of the wear-dependent surface topography. The surface topography, which is subject to change especially during running-in, is taken into account in the form of wear-dependent asperity contact pressure curves, respectively wear-dependent flow factors. To validate the simulation results, tests were carried out on a rotational tribometer. The results show that the consideration of the wear-dependent surface topography has a significant influence on the wear development and thus the trend evaluated from the experiment can be better assessed.
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Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 563-570 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Materials Today: Proceedings |
Volume | 93.2023 |
Issue number | 4 |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 18 Feb 2023 |