EHL Oil Film Behavior of Thermo-Reversible Gel-Lubricants

EHL Oil Film Behavior of Thermo-Reversible Gel-Lubricants

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This Intermittent Catheters study investigates about the characteristic of the thermo-reversible gel-lubricant (TR Gel-Lube) under elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) conditions.TR Gel-Lube is the lubricant, which consists of base fluid and a gel agent.TR Gel-Lube is repeatedly able to change gel-state to liquid-state at the melting point of its gel agent.

Moreover, TR Gel-Lube has good tribological properties, anti-evaporability and so on.This paper describes about investigation of the EHL oil film thickness characteristic, the oil starvation at EHL inlet region CS-1719 and the EHL traction characteristic.It was observed that TR Gel-Lube had low EHL traction, thick EHL film thickness and good stability of EHL oil film formation compared with conventional greases.