... by 11 per cent. Based on fired engine durability bench tests, it is evidenced that none of the coated tappets and pins show any noticeable peeling or delamination. Wear profiles analysis results indicate that DLC-coated engine components give rise to a substantial reduction in wear. Originality/value...

... of the bearing in the shaft-bearing system of ordinary machinery. Jun Sun can be contacted at: sunjun_hfut@163.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Design Optimization Bearings Multi-objective Optimization design Engine components Engine crankshaft-bearing Internal combustion...

... concentration in the air. These undesirable particles can increase friction and cause greater wear, resulting in the failure of engine components (Wan and Spikes, 1987). The study of the tribological properties of the cylinder liner and piston ring system with the presence of particles has long attracted much...

... of lubricant from front‐end plane P =bearing load Jun Sun can be contacted at: sunjun_hfut@163.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Engine components Lubrication Deformation Elastic analysis Elastohydrodynamics Bearings c=nominal radial clearance...

... their various limitations. Şahin Yıldırım can be contacted at: sahiny@erciyes.edu.tr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Neural nets Engine components Lubricating oils Road vehicle engineering φ=Some function which is monotonic for non negative numbers AF...

... Quality Performance testing Engine components ⋮= Carbon in 24th part, percent= Average Carbon percent==(1 + 5+…+3)/24 = 2 Carbon filling==10−0.2 = 9.8. For each ring groove, varnish types described in Table II are evaluated as percentage, added. For every 1 percent, a real...

... Castrol commodity management service creates engine line savings for Ford Bridgend, UK Keywords: Automotive industry, Engine components,Synthetic oils The 4.2l V8 engine for the stunning new Jaguar XK Coupe is one of a number built at Ford's engine manufacturing facility...

...‐carrying capacity. Equation 33 Jaw‐Ren Lin can be contacted at: jrlin.ms18@msa.hinet.net and jrlin@nanya.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Lubricants Dynamics Bearings Engine components As a consequence of the development of modern machines...

... at: andrzej.kaźmierczak@pwr.wroc.pl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Internal combustion engines Engine components Design Production management The most commonly occurring ferric and ferrous oxides are hematite, Fe₂O₃ (red) and magnetite, Fe₃O₄...

..., inferences can be made about the design‐technological nature of the seal under development. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Engine components Internal combustion engines Simulation Modelling Finite element analysis The presented simulations of combustion engine ring seal...

... and discs were investigated using pin‐on‐disc and reciprocating pin‐on‐plate test rigs. Wear tracks were examined using optical and electron microscopy with X‐ray diffraction analysis. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Tribology Lubricating oils Additives Engine components...

... x, y, z=Cartesian coordinates t=time t^*=non‐dimensional time, t^*=WC²t/μR³d © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Shearing Porosity Engine components...

... coating according to the same PAPVD technology, in the ITE in Radom. The specimens were numbered. Tribology Surface conductivity Wear Combustion chambers Engine components Energy Surface free energy (SFE) is a measurement of the difference between the value of the cohesion and decohesion...

.... The results also show that the lower permeability and the thicker wall of the porous bearing produce the higher load capacity. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Engine components Lubrication Numerical analysis C== bearing clearance for ε=0 D== diameter of journal...

..., l*=couple stress parameter l*=l/C L=length of the bearing R=radius of the journal © MCB UP Limited 2003 Surface texture Stress (materials) Lubrication Engine components W=load‐carrying capacity ω=angular...

... to collect from engine tests, but do not tend to substitute engine tests. Tribology Wear Friction Lubrication Engine components Saving money and time will be possible only if the results from the test rigs (tribometers) can be transferred to the functional behavior in the application. The aim...