Most bearings operate with a fluid film -- oil, another liquid, or a gas. By far the largest number of bearings are oil lubricated. The oil film can be maintained through pumping by a pressurization ...

Peer-reviewed research by Thordon Bearings into the hydrodynamic lubrication efficiency of a ship’s propeller shaft bearing has found that the use of seawater-lubricated elastomeric polymer bearings ...

THE letter from Messrs. Shaw and Strang states that the behaviour of lubricated parallel surfaces, which I reported in a paper to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in January 1945, is mainly due ...

The main use of lubricants is to minimize tribiological wear and friction between surfaces in contact. Lubricants remove the debris from the contact zones, thus minimizing further erosion of bearing ...

The frictional properties of any plain bearing depend on the lubrication system. Either hydrodynamic or hydrostatic lubrication can provide low friction. Gas bearings have the lowest friction levels.

Elastohydrodynamics of soft solids and lubrication is a multifaceted research field that investigates the interplay between elastic deformations and fluid-mediated forces in thin film contacts. At its ...

A plot illustrating the frictional characteristics of a liquid lubricant, under conditions such as mixed and hydrodynamic regimes and boundary, is known as the Stribeck curve. Each of the regimes is ...

In a recent study published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, researchers performed an in situ tribomicroscopy to explore the lubrication mechanisms of edible PCM (phase change materials) using ...