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  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,484 Views
11 Pages

7 September 2018

Prediction of minimum film thickness is often used in practice for calculation of film parameter to design machine operation in full film regime. It was reported several times that majority of prediction formulas cannot match experimental data in ter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,343 Views
25 Pages

22 November 2022

This article presents a steady-state elastohydrodynamic lubrication model for the contact and sliding interface of an axial piston pump’s port plate pair. The wedge-shaped oil film thickness, pressure, viscosity, and elastic deformation distrib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,833 Views
20 Pages

A flexible structure is applied to improve the lubrication performance of a misaligned journal bearing. The journal bearing is a representative sliding bearing, and there is damage due to metal-to-metal contact as a result of misalignment. Since misa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,682 Views
22 Pages

25 November 2023

Bearings might be damaged due to shock loads caused by disturbances, in addition to static loads. In this study, a flexible structure was applied to enhance the lubrication characteristics of misaligned journal bearings subjected to impact loads. Whe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
12,746 Views
20 Pages

20 October 2020

Apart from complex numerical models to predict the tribological behavior of elastohydrodynamically lubricated contacts, non-dimensional similarity groups and analytically solvable proximity equations can be used to estimate integral fluid film parame...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
703 Views
19 Pages

Grease Film Behavior in Ball Bearings

  • Denis Cojocaru,
  • Gelu Ianuș,
  • Vlad Cârlescu,
  • Bogdan Chiriac and
  • Dumitru Olaru

25 September 2025

To the film thicknesses of grease-lubricated ball bearings, the viscosity of the base oil is considered in the Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication (EHL) equations. For very low speeds, the grease film thickness is much larger than the calculated base oil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,739 Views
17 Pages

13 July 2022

As a lubricant, the viscosity of the magnetic fluid changes with the external magnetic field, which improves the bearing capacity of the oil film and hence the lubrication effect, and has a promising application in bearings. Based on the Roelands vis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
694 Views
14 Pages

The present study investigated the influence of various gait patterns on the viscoelastic squeeze-film lubrication characteristics of UHMWPE-based artificial hip replacements. Different gait loads (slow walking, normal walking, slow running) measured...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,872 Views
21 Pages

27 February 2023

The cylinder gas film seal between dual-rotor reverse shafts is a new method for sealing aircraft engines that has excellent developmental prospects. We propose a novel method for determining if the sealing ring is fully fluid-lubricated using the av...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,025 Views
12 Pages

Non-Conjugated Copoly(Arylene Ether Ketone) for the Current-Collecting System of a Solar Cell with Indium Tin Oxide Electrode

  • Alexey N. Lachinov,
  • Danfis D. Karamov,
  • Azat F. Galiev,
  • Sergey N. Salazkin,
  • Vera V. Shaposhnikova,
  • Tatiana N. Kost and
  • Alla B. Chebotareva

13 February 2023

The mechanism of charge carrier transport in the indium tin oxide (ITO)/polymer/Cu structure is studied, where thin films of copoly(arylene ether ketone) with cardo fluorene moieties are used. This copoly(arylene ether ketone) is non-conjugated polym...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,461 Views
16 Pages

28 April 2015

Many studies have already considered starved lubrication. However, there have been no reports on the oil film thicknesses under steady starved EHL (elastohydrodynamic lubrication), where the ultra-low volume of oil supplied per unit time is uniform....

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,867 Views
23 Pages

22 November 2023

This study extends the use of Machine Learning (ML) approaches for lubricant film thickness predictions to the general case of elliptical elastohydrodynamic (EHD) contacts, by considering wide and narrow contacts over a wide range of ellipticity and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,228 Views
16 Pages

The elastic-supported tilting pad journal bearing brings new momentum and opportunities for improving the lubrication performance and dynamic stability of high-speed bearing–rotor systems. The objective of this study is to investigate the dynam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,870 Views
13 Pages

High-Speed Digital Photography of Vapor Cavitation in a Narrow Gap Flow

  • Peter Reinke,
  • Tom Beckmann,
  • Caroline Ahlers,
  • Jan Ahlrichs,
  • Lamyaa Hammou and
  • Marcus Schmidt

26 January 2023

Digital photography of cavitation in narrow gap flows, e.g., lubrication films in journal bearings or squeeze film dampers, demands a high time-resolution and a solution to approaching the particular spatial restrictions. Typically, the lubrication f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,562 Views
18 Pages

Morphology and Mechanics of Star Copolymer Ultrathin Films Probed by Atomic Force Microscopy in the Air and in Liquid

  • Cristiano Albonetti,
  • Lorella Izzo,
  • Giovanni Vigliotta,
  • Matilde Sublimi Saponetti,
  • Fabiola Liscio and
  • Fabrizio Bobba

25 January 2024

Star copolymer films were produced by using spin-coating, drop-casting, and casting deposition techniques, thus obtaining ultrathin and thick films, respectively. The morphology is generally flat, but it becomes substrate-dependent for ultrathin film...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,257 Views
14 Pages

2 April 2023

Zinc–aluminum layered double hydroxides (ZnAl-LDHs) film is a typical effective corrosion resistant film currently being explored. In this study, ZnAl-LDHs film was prepared on magnesium alloys with different surface roughness by means of metal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,390 Views
15 Pages

28 December 2022

Aiming at the problem of how the thermal characteristics of cylindrical roller bearings affect the lubrication characteristics of bearings under actual working conditions, the influence of parameters such as speed and load on the lubrication characte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,106 Views
18 Pages

Lubrication of polymer materials nowadays represents a subject of interest in many engineering applications, such as bearings or gears, to utilize them in the areas where conventional metal materials have so far dominated. However, material propertie...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,868 Views
8 Pages

We present a computational study of the near-field enhancement properties from a plasmonic nanomaterial based on a silver nanoparticle on a gold film. Our simulation studies show a clear distinguishability between nanoparticle mode and gap mode as a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
937 Views
17 Pages

30 April 2025

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of nanoscratching with a spherical diamond abrasive was performed to investigate the role of water molecular film on the surface nanotribological characteristics and subsurface lattice damage of GaN (0001) at the at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,650 Views
23 Pages

Impact of Influence of Piston Design Parameters on the Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Internal Combustion Engines—A Numerical Study

  • Brahim Menacer,
  • Sunny Narayan,
  • Víctor Tuninetti,
  • Tawfiq Khatir,
  • Angelo Oñate,
  • Liomnis Osorio,
  • Shitu Abubakar,
  • Joseph Samuel,
  • Ivan Grujic and
  • Muhammad Usman Kaisan
  • + 1 author

2 December 2024

Piston top rings in the combustion engine play a crucial role in the overall hydrodynamic performance of engines, such as power loss, minimum film thickness and friction forces, by ensuring sealing and minimizing the leakage of burnt gases. This pres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,358 Views
9 Pages

6 March 2020

The effects of film thickness on the tribological behavior have been investigated for hydrogen-free diamond-like carbon coating in this paper. The film was deposited on cemented carbide substrate (YG10C) by applying a high power impulse magnetron spu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,621 Views
11 Pages

Here, we report an explorative study of an attempt to fabricate ultrathin aluminum oxide films on n-InP substrates by radio-frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering as a candidate for insulating layers in semiconductor lasers for optical communication. Fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,455 Views
17 Pages

Thermal Effects in Slender EHL Contacts

  • Marko Tošić,
  • Roland Larsson and
  • Thomas Lohner

This study deals with experimental and numerical analysis of the thermal effects of slender elastohydrodynamically lubricated (EHL) contacts under high sliding. Thereby, the entrainment direction is along the major axis of the contact ellipse. Film t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,486 Views
19 Pages

Misalignment-Induced Micro-Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication in Rotary Lip Seals

  • F. Xavier Borras,
  • Matthijn B. de Rooij and
  • Dik J. Schipper

10 February 2020

In literature the lubrication of rotary lip seals is explained by hydrodynamic action on a microscopic scale. This theory assumes perfect concentricity between the seal and the shaft which in reality seldomly occurs. Focusing on the stern tube seals...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,944 Views
19 Pages

Thermal Elastohydrodynamic Analysis of a Worm Gear

  • Marko Tošić,
  • Roland Larsson,
  • Karsten Stahl and
  • Thomas Lohner

10 January 2023

This study explores the elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) between the contacting tooth flanks of a worm gear with nonconjugate meshing action. The contact is characterized by a slender-like elliptical shape and high sliding. The geometry and conta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,835 Views
11 Pages

Fabrication and Characterization of Mineral Hydrophilic Antifogging Film via Vacuum Evaporation Method

  • Shenyu Wei,
  • Qi Zheng,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Cheng Peng,
  • Xinglan Cui,
  • Xiaokui Che,
  • Wuyu Wang and
  • Zeen Yu

3 April 2023

Natural silicate minerals have a wide range of applications as green, non-toxic and low-cost materials. In this paper, hydrophilic anti-fog films of silicate minerals were generated via a vacuum evaporation coating method using natural feldspar miner...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,180 Views
20 Pages

Viscoelastic Response of Elastohydrodynamically Lubricated Compliant Contacts below Glass-Transition Temperature

  • Jiri Krupka,
  • Krystof Dockal,
  • Tomas Sedlacek,
  • David Rebenda,
  • Ivan Krupka and
  • Martin Hartl

30 May 2023

The widespread use of polymers in the high-performance engineering applications brings challenges in the field of liquid lubrication in order to separate the rubbing surfaces by the coherent fluid-film thickness relative to not only the inelastic mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,385 Views
14 Pages

All propeller-driven ships employ a drive shaft supported by journal bearings. To avoid water pollution, these bearings are generally lubricated by the surrounding water, removing the need for a rear seal. Such bearings, commonly referred to as Cutla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,140 Views
20 Pages

This paper is the second part of a two-part report studying the responses of a typical point-contact elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) system to multiscale roughness mimicked by wavy surfaces. The wavy surfaces are defined by three key parameters:...

  • Article
  • Open Access
418 Views
29 Pages

The thermal elastohydrodynamic lubrication problem of non-orthogonal surface gear pairs under point contact conditions was studied. Firstly, a mathematical model is established through a comprehensive contact and lubrication analysis. On this basis,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,324 Views
16 Pages

27 February 2024

Gas film thickness significantly influences the performance prediction of Gas Foil Thrust Bearings (GFTB). However, the Classical Model (CM) for GFTBs exhibits inaccuracies in describing gas film thickness. In this paper, we explore the differences i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,664 Views
15 Pages

24 February 2022

To investigate the static characteristics of aerostatic journal bearings with porous bushing, the flow model—in which the compressibility of lubricating gas is considered—is established based on the Reynolds lubrication equation, Darcy eq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,900 Views
15 Pages

Nanorod Self-Assembly in High Jc YBa2Cu3O7−x Films with Ru-Based Double Perovskites

  • Terry G. Holesinger,
  • Matthew D. Feldmann,
  • Boris Maiorov,
  • Leonardo Civale,
  • John A. Kennison,
  • Yates J. Coulter,
  • Paul D. Dowden,
  • Javier F. Baca,
  • Paul H. Tobash and
  • Kenneth R. Marken
  • + 1 author

17 November 2011

Many second phase additions to YBa2Cu3O7−x (YBCO) films, in particular those that self-assemble into aligned nanorod and nanoparticle structures, enhance performance in self and applied fields. Of particular interest for additions are Ba-containing p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,906 Views
13 Pages

Thickness-Dependent Gilbert Damping and Soft Magnetism in Metal/Co-Fe-B/Metal Sandwich Structure

  • Yimo Fan,
  • Jiawei Wang,
  • Aitian Chen,
  • Kai Yu,
  • Mingmin Zhu,
  • Yunxin Han,
  • Sen Zhang,
  • Xianqing Lin,
  • Haomiao Zhou and
  • Qiang Lin
  • + 1 author

28 March 2024

The achievement of the low Gilbert damping parameter in spin dynamic modulation is attractive for spintronic devices with low energy consumption and high speed. Metallic ferromagnetic alloy Co-Fe-B is a possible candidate due to its high compatibilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,143 Views
14 Pages

Study on Saturable Absorption Characteristics of Bi2Se3 Topological Insulators with Film Thickness Dependence and Its Laser Application

  • Yang Gao,
  • Yiyi Chen,
  • Ranran Zhang,
  • Qikun Pan,
  • Chongxiao Zhao,
  • Yiping Zhou,
  • Jin Guo and
  • Fei Chen

In our work, a multi-layer topological insulator (TI) Bi2Se3 thin film was prepared by the chemical vapor deposition method (CVD), and its saturable absorption and damage characteristics were experimentally studied. The results show that when the wav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,742 Views
22 Pages

The contact between the piston rings and the cylinder liner is an interface with a strong influence on the tribological behavior and, therefore, directly affects the useful life of the engine components and fuel consumption. Due to this importance, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,653 Views
9 Pages

1 August 2009

In human knee joints, synovial fluid film covers the surface of synovium and cartilage within the joint space. Synovial joints acts as bearing in mechanical system. Although the artificial human joints differ from most mechanical bearings in their na...

  • Article
  • Open Access
798 Views
22 Pages

21 October 2025

The aim of this research was to examine the antibacterial activity of commercially available silver nanoparticles against foodborne bacteria and to evaluate the properties of pullulan films incorporating these nanoparticles, including their antibacte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,272 Views
14 Pages

Investigation of PEEK Lined Pads for Tilting-Pad Journal Bearings

  • Steven Chatterton,
  • Edoardo Gheller,
  • Andrea Vania,
  • Paolo Pennacchi and
  • Phuoc Vinh Dang

10 February 2022

Tilting-pad journal bearings are widely used in industry to support rotating shafts due to their high dynamic performance. The operating limits of these bearings are mainly represented by the maximum permissible temperature of the lined materials of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,585 Views
28 Pages

18 December 2022

Understanding the responses of tribosystems to multiscale roughness is fundamental for the identification of the relevant roughness scales. This work used a point-contact elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) problem as a representative tribosystem an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,744 Views
18 Pages

Study on Temperature Characteristics of Lubrication Film of Valve Plate Pair in Axial Piston Pumps

  • Zhiqiang Zhang,
  • Shaojie Ma,
  • Pingzhu Lv,
  • Qun Chao,
  • Lin Li and
  • Zhiqi Liu

16 April 2024

The film temperature distribution of the valve plate pair in axial piston pumps affects its lubrication, leakage, and friction. In order to investigate the film temperature distribution of the valve plate pair in axial piston pumps, a test platform w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,611 Views
16 Pages

PZT/PZT and PZT/BiT Composite Piezo-Sensors in Aerospace SHM Applications: Photochemical Metal Organic + Infiltration Deposition and Characterization

  • Hamidreza Hoshyarmanesh,
  • Nafiseh Ebrahimi,
  • Amir Jafari,
  • Parisa Hoshyarmanesh,
  • Minjae Kim and
  • Hyung-Ho Park

20 December 2018

The composition of fine-ground lead zirconate-titanate powder Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3, suspended in PZT and bismuth titanate (BiT) solutions, is deposited on the curved surface of IN718 and IN738 nickel-based supper alloy substrates up to 100 µm thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,227 Views
14 Pages

Thickness and Humidity on Proton Conductivity in MOF-508 Thin Film by Twin-Zinc-Source Method

  • Kun Zhang,
  • Chunxia Wang,
  • Feng Yang,
  • Jing Li,
  • Shuguang Yan and
  • Yue Qi

30 August 2023

To achieve structurally stable and high proton conductive materials, preferably under ambient humidity and pressure, the well-controlled thickness and conductivity of the MOF thin films represent an effective approach. Electrodes are the most importa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,590 Views
13 Pages

The chemical bath deposition technique has been used for the deposition of Cu2S thin films on glass substrates. The thickness of deposited thin films strongly depends on the deposition parameters. The present study revealed that the thickness increas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,316 Views
11 Pages

Polysulfobetaines in Aqueous Solution and in Thin Film Geometry

  • Bart-Jan Niebuur,
  • Jonas Puchmayr,
  • Christian Herold,
  • Lucas P. Kreuzer,
  • Viet Hildebrand,
  • Peter Müller-Buschbaum,
  • André Laschewsky and
  • Christine M. Papadakis

21 May 2018

Polysulfobetaines in aqueous solution show upper critical solution temperature (UCST) behavior. We investigate here the representative of this class of materials, poly (N,N-dimethyl-N-(3-methacrylamidopropyl) ammonio propane sulfonate) (PSPP), with r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,277 Views
16 Pages

12 June 2021

Inner-side coatings have been proposed as a complementary solution within the accident tolerant fuel (ATF) framework, to provide enhanced protection for the nuclear fuel cladding. Unlike external surface, the degradation of irradiated internal claddi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,717 Views
12 Pages

Tunable Microwave Filters Using HfO2-Based Ferroelectrics

  • Martino Aldrigo,
  • Mircea Dragoman,
  • Sergiu Iordanescu,
  • Florin Nastase and
  • Silviu Vulpe

18 October 2020

In this paper, we present microwave filters that are based on 6-nm-thick ferroelectric thin films of hafnium oxide doped with zirconium (HfZrO), which are tunable continuously in targeted bands of interest within the frequency range 0.1–16 GHz,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,086 Views
18 Pages

The lubrication state of the feed system of a CNC machine tool will affect its positioning accuracy, repetition accuracy, and minimum movement amount. Insufficient or excessive lubrication will affect the accuracy. The primary objective of this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
647 Views
25 Pages

27 October 2025

In the processes of deep hole drilling and boring, tool deflection and chatter are prevalent problems that significantly affect the quality and efficiency of deep hole part machining. This paper designs a Helical-Type Vibration-Damping and Deflection...

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