Abstract: The article by Tanaka describes a rapid and accurate method for the determination of contact pressure in the Hertz elliptical contact problem, without the need to use tables or graphs such ...

Abstract: It has been widely observed that the mass (or weight) and cost of geared transmission systems is a relatively simple function of the maximum continuous torques to be transmitted. This fact ...

Abstract: The contact between the male and female teeth of involute spline couplings connecting misaligned transmission shafts has been studied using an elastostatic contact model with stick-slip friction ...

Abstract: In previous work it was shown that some functionalized polymers used as viscosity index improvers are able to form thick boundary lubricating films. This behavior results from adsorption of the ...

Abstract: A new mechanism of hydrodynamic lubrication termed “inlet suction,” applicable to low convergence, micropocketed bearings, has been identified. In this, sliding of one of the bearing surfaces ...

Abstract: A detailed experimental study has been made of the behavior of a 100 nm high transversely oriented ridge in an elastohydrodynamic (EHD) contact. Ultra-thin film interferometry has been used to ...

Abstract: A spacer layer imaging method has been employed to map lubricant film thickness in very thin film, rough surface, rolling elastohydrodynamic (EHD) contacts. A series of model roughnesses have ...