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Estimating the Dry-Wear Behavior of Rolling/Sliding Bearings (PB, Gunmetal, and Al6061)–Tribo Materials

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This study investigates the energy dissipation and application of a simplified incremental wear model to assess its effectiveness in predicting the wear behavior of three specific bearing materials (phosphorus bronze, gunmetal, and aluminum 6061) under dry sliding/rolling conditions. The wear experiments were conducted using twin disk rolling/sliding tribometers at different applied loads of 49, 98, and 147 N, while maintaining a fixed slip ratio of 4%. The wear depth changes were periodically measured over a total sliding distance of 1860 m experimentally as well through simplified wear model in MATLAB®. The wear depths obtained from the experimental data were compared with the wear depths predicted by the incremental wear model for the three selected material pairs: (i) phosphor bronze, (ii) gunmetal, and (iii) aluminum alloy with EN31 as the counterface disk material. The simulated wear depth results showed good qualitative and quantitative agreement with the experimental results, with errors of 6.4, 6.8, and 10.7% for the aluminum disk, gunmetal disk, and phosphor bronze disk, respectively. Overall, the wear model was found to be computationally efficient in estimating the dry wear behavior and service life of chosen bearing tribo pairs.

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Abbreviations

A :

Contact area [mm2]

E:

Young’s modulus [Pa]

F N :

Applied normal load [N]

H :

Hardness [N/mm2]

K :

Dimensionless wear coefficient [–]

K D :

Specific wear rate [mm3/Nm]

L :

Sliding distance [m]

N :

Number of rotations [–]

R 1 :

Radius of upper disk [m]

R 2 :

Radius of lower disk [m]

R eq :

Equivalent radius of curvature [m]

V :

Worn volume [mm3]

h w :

Wear depth [µm]

i :

Increment [–]

p :

Pressure [Pa]

p o :

Average contact pressure [Pa]

s :

Sliding distance [m]

dt :

Small time change [s]

u :

Elastic displacement [m]

u :

Rolling velocity [m/s]

u :

Sliding velocity [m/s]

v :

Linear velocity [mm/s]

δt i :

Increment of time [s]

θ :

Circumferential coordinate [–]

ν :

Poisson’s ratio [–]

σ :

Stress [Pa]

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Acknowledgments

We would like to show our gratitude to Advance Tribology Research Centre of CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum (Dehradun) for providing us the concept, facilities, and consumables for the research. We would also like to thank the National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, for providing monetary support for the entire duration of the project.

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    Vinay Saini & Upendra Maurya

  2. Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Vinay Saini

  3. Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering Pune, Pune, India

    Upendra Maurya & G. D. Thakre

  4. Tribology Research Division, CSIR-IIP, Dehradun, India

    Vinay Saini, Upendra Maurya & G. D. Thakre

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VS contributed to conceptualization, methodology, testing, analysis, and writing original manuscript. UM contributed to formal analysis, testing worn disk, and analysis. GDT contributed to conceptualization, editing, supervision, and project administration.

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Saini, V., Maurya, U. & Thakre, G.D. Estimating the Dry-Wear Behavior of Rolling/Sliding Bearings (PB, Gunmetal, and Al6061)–Tribo Materials. J Fail. Anal. and Preven. 23, 2439–2451 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11668-023-01770-0

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