Abstract: The concentrated contact formed between a steel ball and a glass disc—the optical elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHD) rig—has been the primary instrument for experimental investigations of elastohydrodynamic film thickness. ...

Abstract: The slow progress in the prediction of elastohydrodynamic film thickness and friction may be attributed to the mistaken notion that a traction curve is equivalent to a rheological flow curve. A similar concept is being ...

Abstract: Seventeen years have passed since the first full elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) simulation employed the real pressure and shear dependence of viscosity measured in viscometers to accurately predict film thickness and ...

Abstract: The first calculations of film thickness for an oil/refrigerant system using quantitative elastohydrodynamics are reported in this work. It is demonstrated that primary measurements of the properties of the oil/refrigerant ...