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Lubricants, Volume 8, Issue 12

2020 December - 6 articles

Cover Story: Shear thinning of hydraulic fluids formulated with polymeric additives directly affects the efficiency of hydraulic systems, such as axial piston pumps. Simple models can be used to predict the shear rate at which thinning begins, and molecular dynamics simulations explain how polymer concentration and molecular weight affect this critical shear rate. View this paper.
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Articles (6)

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,428 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2020

A computational approach that is based on interface finite elements with eMbedded Profiles for Joint Roughness (MPJR) is exploited in order to study the viscoelastic contact problems with any complex shape of the indenting profiles. The MPJR finite e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,871 Views
14 Pages

Study of Frictional Effects of Granite Subjected to Quasi-Static Contact Loading

  • Hossein Shariati,
  • Mahdi Saadati,
  • Kenneth Weddfelt,
  • Per-Lennart Larsson and
  • Francois Hild

16 December 2020

The rock fragmentation response to drilling, in particular percussive drilling, is important in order to improve the efficiency of such an operation. The resulting problem includes spherical contact between the drill bit and the material and therefor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,655 Views
12 Pages

The Basin Stability of Bi-Stable Friction-Excited Oscillators

  • Merten Stender,
  • Norbert Hoffmann and
  • Antonio Papangelo

8 December 2020

Stability considerations play a central role in structural dynamics to determine states that are robust against perturbations during the operation. Linear stability concepts, such as the complex eigenvalue analysis, constitute the core of analysis ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,872 Views
19 Pages

4 December 2020

New developments in additive manufacturing (AM) are enabling the use of 3D printed parts in increasingly demanding applications, such as in mechanical power transmission systems, where excellent build quality and tribological performance are required...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,804 Views
25 Pages

3 December 2020

The problem of climate change and the reduction of fossil fuels has motivated the development of research focused on improving the efficiency of internal combustion engines. This research proposes a methodology based on mathematical models to determi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,652 Views
15 Pages

Critical Shear Rate of Polymer-Enhanced Hydraulic Fluids

  • Pawan Panwar,
  • Paul Michael,
  • Mark Devlin and
  • Ashlie Martini

25 November 2020

Many application-relevant fluids exhibit shear thinning, where viscosity decreases with shear rate above some critical shear rate. For hydraulic fluids formulated with polymeric additives, the critical shear rate is a function of the molecular weight...

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Lubricants - ISSN 2075-4442