Publication Date

2016

Document Type

Thesis

Committee Members

Sheng Li (Advisor), Ahsan Mian (Committee Member), Nikolai Priezjev (Committee Member)

Degree Name

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME)

Abstract

This study investigates the effects of the micro-dimple texture on the friction and surface temperature performances of a ball-on-disk contact, operating under the speed and load ranges that cover typical gearing applications. Circular shaped micro-dimple arrays with different dimple center distances and dimple depths are implemented on the ball surface to quantify the impacts of these two parameters on the friction coefficient and the maximum ball surface temperature. In addition, the contacts of three surface texture combinations, namely micro-dimpled and polished ball surface versus polished disk surface, polished ball surface versus polished disk surface and ground ball surface versus ground disk surface, are compared to demonstrate any beneficial or detrimental effect of micro-dimples in heavily loaded high speed applications. This study adopts a thermal mixed EHL point contact model, whose capability and accuracy have been well demonstrated by comparing to the experimental measurements, to quantify the deterministic tribological behavior within the contact, allowing the exploration of the underlying mechanism that governs the role of micro-dimples in the elastohydrodynamic lubrication.

Page Count

64

Department or Program

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Year Degree Awarded

2016

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.


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