Elastohydrodynamic (EHD) Lubrication
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2019) | Viewed by 24528
Special Issue Editor
Interests: contact mechanics; tribology; elastohydrodynamic lubrication
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Dear Colleagues,
Lubrication is vital in society to reduce friction and wear to consequently increase energy efficiency and service life of mechanical components. Elastohydrodynamic (EHD) lubrication is found in many of today’s most common machine components like gears, rolling element bearings and cam followers. EHD lubrication features many distinct challenges where the non-conformal nature of the contacts gives rise to elastic deformation of the surfaces and contact pressures up to several gigapascals. This means high contact stresses and high shear rates in rolling/sliding contacts. Research in EHD covers many areas such as lubricant rheology, lubricant film formation, tribofilms, efficiency of machine components, surface coatings, textures, pitting, micro-pitting, machine component design etc.
This Special Issue deals with current advances within the field of EHD lubrication and papers dealing with the aforementioned topics or related that can increase the knowledge of EHD lubrication and its applications. Contributions from both academic and industrial research are welcome.
We are enthusiastically looking forward to your submission.
Dr. Marcus Björling
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Elastohydrodynamic lubrication
- EHD
- EHL
- Traction
- Friction
- Mixed lubrication
- Thermal effects
- Coatings
- Film formation
- Pitting
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