Mixohydrodynamic lubrication

The kind of wear behavior characteristic of mixohydrodynamic lubrication is shown in Fig. 14-2. The left-hand diagram shows the distance-dependent depth-rate of wear as a function of the contact pressure for a series of four rubbing speeds. The right-hand diagram shows... 

Figure 14-2. Wear behavior and mixohydrodynamic lubrication. Pressure-dependent wear at various speeds. A 5.08 cm/s B 10.1 C 25.4 cm/s D 50.8 cm/s. (b) Speed-dependent wear at various...

Sakurai, Okabe and Matsumura [5] used a somewhat different approach to obtain an expression for the effect of contact pressure and rubbing speed on wear rate under conditions of mixohydrodynamic lubrication. Figure 14-3 shows the relation they observed between the volumetric distance-dependent wear rate and contact pressure with rubbing speed as... 

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