Measurement of EHL Film Thickness in Oil-in-Water Emulsion Lubrication

O/W Emulsion 潤滑에서의 彈性流體潤滑膜두께의 측정

By Bong Goo Rhee, College of Engineering, The Univ. of Won Kwang (344-2, Sinyongdong, Iri-shi, 510 Chunpuk-do, Korea), Yoshitsugu Kimura and Kazumi Okada, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Faculty of Engineering, The Univ. of Tokyo(4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan), Katsuyuki Hashizume, Taiho Kogyo(2-47 Hosoya-Cho, Toyoda-Shi 471, Japan) and Chang Heon Chi, The G. S of Chon buk N. Unv. It is empirically known that, in concentrated conjunctions lubricated with O/W emulsions, only the oil is entrained to form elastohydrodynamic films. In the present work, this phenomenon is studied experimentally and the result is compared with a theory Which employes a starved lubrication concept. The experiment is conducted in a four roller machine with 0/W emulsions of varying concentration of oil, i.e. beef tallow, in which the film thickness is determined by detecting the rate of X-ray transmission through the conjunction. Excellent agreement is found between the experimental and the theoretical results.