scholarly journals Friction and Wear Studies Using Taguchi Method: Application to the Characterization of Carbon-Silicon Carbide Tribological Couples of Automotive Water Pump Seals

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Déprez ◽  
Philippe Hivart ◽  
Jean François Coutouly ◽  
Etienne Debarre

An experimental design based on the Taguchi method has been applied to optimize the use of a dynamic sealing element of water pump of automotives combustion engines. A carbon primary ring and a silicon carbide mating ring set up this dynamic sealing element. The aim of this work was to experimentally determine the crossed influence of the primary ring variant, the normal load, the surrounding, the mating ring finishing, and the rotational frequency on the dynamic friction coefficient and on the wear of carbon primary ring-silicon carbide mating ring tribological couples. The coefficient of dynamic friction and the wear depend on the design factors. They are also functions of the interactions between these experimental factors, from the implementation of an experimental design. The results obtained allow the optimal functioning condition to be determined and the best friction couple to be used for a given dynamic sealing application.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Qin Lian ◽  
Chunxu Yang ◽  
Jifei Cao

The transition between static and kinetic frictions of steel/shale pairs has been studied. It was found that the coefficient of friction decreased exponentially from static to dynamic friction coefficient with increasing sliding displacement. The difference between static and dynamic friction coefficients and the critical distance Dc under the dry friction condition is much larger than that under the lubricated condition. The transition from static to dynamic friction coefficient is greatly affected by the normal load, quiescent time, and sliding velocity, especially the lubricating condition. Maintaining continuous lubrication of the contact area by the lubricant is crucial to reduce or eliminate the stick-slip motion. The results provide an insight into the transition from static to dynamic friction of steel/shale pairs.


Author(s):  
P Vantomme ◽  
P Deprez ◽  
A Placet ◽  
D Gaillot

This experimental study concerns the tribological properties of different carbon-porous silicon carbide couples. A tribometer was used to determine the coefficients of static and dynamic friction of these couples of materials. The parameters able to influence the static and the dynamic friction coefficients such as the finish of the porous silicon carbide material, the quality of the carbon material, the normal load, the surroundings and the speed in the case of dynamic friction have been studied.


1996 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Witteborg ◽  
A. van der Last ◽  
R. Hamming ◽  
I. Hemmers

A method is presented for determining influent readily biodegradable substrate concentration (SS). The method is based on three different respiration rates, which can be measured with a continuous respiration meter which is operated in a cyclic way. Within the respiration meter nitrification is inhibited through the addition of ATU. Simulations were used to develop the respirometry set-up and decide upon the experimental design. The method was tested as part of a large measurement programme executed at a full-scale plant. The proposed respirometry set-up has been shown to be suitable for a semi-on-line determination of an influent SS which is fully based on the IAWQ #1 vision of the activated sludge process. The YH and the KS play a major role in the principle, and should be measured directly from the process.


2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Costagliola ◽  
Tobias Brink ◽  
Julie Richard ◽  
Christian Leppin ◽  
Aude Despois ◽  
...  

AbstractWe report experimental measurements of friction between an aluminum alloy sliding over steel with various lubricant densities. Using the topography scans of the surfaces as input, we calculate the real contact area using the boundary element method and the dynamic friction coefficient by means of a simple mechanistic model. Partial lubrication of the surfaces is accounted for by a random deposition model of oil droplets. Our approach reproduces the qualitative trends of a decrease of the macroscopic friction coefficient with applied pressure, due to a larger fraction of the micro-contacts being lubricated for larger loads. This approach relates direct measurements of surface topography to realistic distributions of lubricant, suggesting possible model extensions towards quantitative predictions.


Author(s):  
S H Mok ◽  
D G Gorman

Maintenance of offshore drilling mud pumps is normally based on running hours. It is generally accepted, however, that time does not provide an accurate means of scheduling maintenance, given the varying operating conditions of the reciprocating mud pumps. The energy expended at the interaction of sliding surfaces is hypothesized to be a better alternative. The effects of operating variables on wear rates are investigated. A Taguchi experimental design was used to identify those factors that significantly affect wear. Within the confines of an experimental test rig, the normal load and abrasive sand content was found to have a significant effect on the specific wear rate of nitrile rubber sliding on steel in drilling fluid.


2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhengmei Li ◽  
Qiong Zhou ◽  
Jianping Tang ◽  
Jianwen Wang ◽  
Qi An

Taking the water pump bearing with one roller row (WR)-type auto water pump bearing as a research sample, an analytical calculation method is developed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the current calculations for the bearing loads and life in engineering application. Considering the misalignment due to the deflection of the bearing spindle, the bearing internal loads and deformations under the action of the complicated external space loads are obtained. The bearing fatigue life including the lives of the rollers and the balls is also calculated with considering the non-normal load distribution caused by the spindle deflection and the roller tilt. The bearing load and life calculation results are compared with those calculated by the traditional method in which the deflection of the bearing spindle and the roller tilt are ignored. The effects of the bearing spindle deflection on the load distribution and the life of the auto water pump bearing are analyzed and discussed. The life decrease in the auto water pump bearing is significant due to the deflection of the bearing spindle and it is recommended to give more attention to this deflection for the high quality of the bearing design and calculation.


Author(s):  
Alain Batailly ◽  
Mathias Legrand

Prediction of rotor/stator interaction phenomena between a blade-tip and the surrounding abradable coating deposited on the casing has seen recent promising numerical developments that revealed consistency with several experimental set-up. In particular, the location of critical rotational frequencies, damaged blade areas as well as the wear pattern along the casing circumference were accurately predicted for an interaction scenario involving a low-pressure compressor blade and the surrounding abradable coating deposited on a perfectly rigid casing. The structural behaviour of the blade in the vicinity of a critical rotational frequency however remains unclear as brutal amplitude variations observed experimentally could not be numerically captured without assuming contact loss or an improbable drastic and sudden change of the abradable coating mechanical properties during the interaction. In this paper, attention is paid to the structural behaviour of a high-pressure compressor blade at the neighbourhood of a critical rotational frequency. The interaction scenarios for two close rotational frequencies: Ωc and Ωc* are analyzed using empirical mode decomposition based on an adjusted B-spline interpolation of the time responses. The obtained results are compared to the interaction scenario dictated by the abradable coating removal history and the location of contact areas. The unstable nature of the blade vibratory response when the rotational frequency exceeds a critical rotational frequency is underlined and a plausible scenario arises for explaining a sudden and significant decrease of the blade amplitude of vibration without contact separation.


The greatest dealon the article have to approach the experimental design, dimensions and formulations in Silicon Carbide and Epoxy Matrix Radiator. The experiment prepared as per the fabrication chart behind that known about the characterization of material and proposal layout of fabrication work. Among the research work, concentrated the formation of silicon carbide epoxy matrix radiator in the given configuration and composition prepared as a high thermal conductive Epoxy resin is mixed at the ratio of 20wt% of epoxy resin 80% of Silicon Carbide. As silicon carbide has higher thermal conductivity and lowerthermal expansion than Aluminium and then the experimented result determined by the rate of heat transfer analysis such as the mode of heat transfer like Conduction, Convection and Radiation of the materials (Aluminium 6061 and Sic + Epoxy Resin). The following heat transfer characteristics formulated and calculated as per the given design, dimension and configuration of the materials.


Author(s):  
T. A. Akhmetov ◽  
V. K. Merinov ◽  
N. V. Kargapolova

The possibility of using the deposited suspended particles of electric arc furnaces as heat-resistant modifying additives for friction composites is considered. It is shown that the precipitated particles obtained during the smelting of steel of different grades have identical morphology and are a homogeneous mechanical mixture consisting mainly of spherical particles of no more than 1 µm in size.It is established that the composites on the basis of the fluoropolymer, modified by precipitated particles obtained in the smelting of steel of various sizes have different tribological properties. This is due to the difference in the chemical composition of the deposited particles.It was found that the use of deposited particles in composite materials allows to vary the value of the dynamic friction coefficient in a wider range, in particular to obtain higher and stable values, while the wear resistance of modified friction composites is more than 500 times higher than the same index of the matrix polymer – polytetrafluoroethylene.


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