Tribology in Ball Milling: Theory and Applications
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 87
Special Issue Editors
Interests: friction; wear; discrete element method; mining machinery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Friction consumes one-third of the world's primary energy, and about 60% of machine parts fail due to wear, while more than 50% of mechanical equipment accidents originate from lubrication failure and excessive wear. Ball mills are key equipment for grinding materials in the cement, mining, and chemical industries. They are also the equipment with the largest power consumption in these industries, accounting for 30% to 70% of a mining plant’s total power consumption. Ball mills, with their characteristics of nonlinearity, large hysteresis, and strong coupling, mainly rely on liners lifting grinding balls to achieve material impact and grinding. During the milling process, the interaction between the grinding balls, the liners, and the slurry involves multi-body friction and wear behaviors, with the impact, friction, and compression between the cylinder, the slurry, the grinding balls, and the liners resulting in the last two suffering the greatest wear. Analyzing the tribological behavior of ball mills and the related mining machinery can help with the structural design, service life improvement, and energy consumption reduction in such equipment.
Tribology research is an important field for the development of the national economy. This Special Issue on "Tribology in Ball Milling: Theory and Applications" aims to provide a platform for researchers to exchange and learn about the tribological behavior of ball mills and related mining machinery.
Dr. Zixin Yin
Dr. Tongqing Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tribology
- wear
- ball mill
- milling
- liner
- friction
- load behavior
- discrete element method
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