Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to review the existing turbulent lubrication theories and their application to fluid film bearing design. The differences between and limitations of the alternative ...

Abstract: The subject of elastohydrodynamic lubrication has developed considerably in recent years and in the present paper the influence of elastic distortion upon the performance of a hydrostatic thrust ...

Abstract: It is common in the analysis of fluid film bearings to neglect the effect of convective fluid inertia. There has been some interest in recent years as to the validity of this assumption in ...

Abstract: Simulations are carried out of an experimental procedure in which a ball impacts a thin layer of lubricant on a disk to form a dimple of entrapped lubricant. Thereafter, pure sliding conditions ...

Abstract: This paper presents experimental results of motored engine tests on the wear and profile development of a twin-land oil-control ring. It is shown that the roughness height of the plateau honed ...

Abstract: The influence of geometry on the isothermal hydrodynamic film separating two rigid solids was investigated. Pressure-viscosity effects were not considered. The minimum film thickness is derived ...