• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.12-25
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• 1996

The friction and wear behaviors of ceramics against steels with lubricants were investigated and compared with those observed in air. Lubrications wbre done by a water and a commercial engine oil as received. The investigated ceramics were $Al_{2}O_{3}$, SiC, and $Si_{3}N_{4}$. Steels with 0.2 wt.% C were heat treated to obtain tempered structure. A cylinder-on-plate tribometer with rotated sliding motion was used to carry out the experiments. In the experiments reported here, the ranges of different testing speeds and loads were used. It was found that the friction and wear characteristics of tested pairs were significantly influenced by environments. In water and oil environments the wear of ceramics was reduced from 10$^{-6}$ g/s down to 10$^{-8}$ g/s in dry sliding at the same values of the frictional power which are the products of the friction coefficient, the load and the sliding speed. SiC showed excellent wear resistant behavior in water sliding, which was the lowest among tested ceramics, but it was, very poor in oils. In case of $Si_{3}N_{4}$, the wear rates were very low under oil environment, but the highest in water. The wear rates of $Al_{2}O_{3}$ were very low in both lubricating conditions at low values of the frictional power, but high at high values of the frictional power.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.38 no.12
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• pp.1035-1042
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• 2014

Reducing the friction of engine parts is an important issue in engine design. The loss of energy in the piston assembly due to mechanical friction ranges from 40 to 55%, and there is an increase in the total energy of about 5% if the friction of the piston can be removed. In order to reduce the friction loss at the level of each engine part, it is necessary to perform a comparative analysis with other engines to determine the important factors affecting the energy loss. Several studies have been performed to analyze the lubrication based on hydrodynamic modeling, since a piston lubrication system has dimensions in the nanoscale to microscale domain. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the correlations between the molecular and continuum systems. In this study, we investigated the friction changes due to the various interactions between molecules in the wall/fluid interface, where a microscopic movement of the oil film occurs along the cylinder liner of the engine.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.173-180
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• 2003

In spite of its potential importance in the assessment of geosynthetic-related dynamic problems, no serious attempt has yet been made to investigate a probable dependence of dynamic friction resistance of the geosynthetic interface on shear displacement rate. Hence, an experimental study of geosynthetics was carried out on a shaking table, and the relationship between dynamic friction resistance and shear displacement rate of geosynthetic interfaces was investigated. A cyclic, displacement rate-controlled experimental setup was used. The subsequent multiple rate tests showed that interfaces that involve geotextiles have such unique shearing characteristics that shear strengths tend to increase with displacement rate. In contrast, once submerged with water, the shear strength appears to be no longer dependent on the displacement rate, partly due to lubrication effect of water trapped inside the interface. The results of the experimental study can be used in the seismic safety assessment of a landfill cover and slope where the geosynthetic materials are exposed to a relatively low normal stress.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.294-305
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• 1989

소성가공 공정설계의 컴퓨터를 이용한 최적설계를 위하여 선결되어야 기술적 과제를 (i) 구성방 정식, (ii) 윤활 및 마찰조건, 그리고 (iii) 적응적 유한요소망 재구성법 등 3가지 분야로 대별하여 논의하였다. 적절히 선택된 마찰/구속조건 등 경계조건 (boundary condition) 과 적절한 유한 요소망의 구성을 통하여 최종제품의 형상을 만들어내기 위한 금형의 형상 등을 유한요소법으로 해석하여 공정설계상의 시행착오의 범위와 횟수를 줄일 수 있다(7,8). 또 하나의 예로서 자동 차의 자체 등 비교적 대형의 판재가공에서 펀치에 의한 본격적인 가공행정이 이루어지기 전에 판재 자체가 중력에 의하여 처지게 되는데 이러한 중력에 의한 피가공재의 초기 처짐은 최종제 품의 형상에 직접적인 영향을 주게 된다. 이 경우 기존의 유한요소 해석 기법을 사용하여 초 기처짐을 제어하기 위한 판재의 가공전 고정용 금형(binder wrap)의 최적설계를 훌륭히 수행할 수 있다. 이같이 현재의 유한요소 해석법은 많은 기술적 과제를 지니고 있으나 동시에 소성가 공의 컴퓨터 응용설계를 실현하기 위한 궁극적 도구로서 매우 큰 활용 잠재력을 지니고 있다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.34-43
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• 1995

The boundary films formed in sliding on steel surfaces were characterized using various lubricants. The mechanism of boundary film formation and loss was investigated over a range of temperature. The thickness of the boundary films was monitored in-situ by an ellipsometer, and the composition of the films was analyzed by XPS. The performance of the lubricants is closely associated with boundary film forming ability. In order to achieve high load carrying capacity, a boundary film must be formed on the surface. Sliding is necessary to form the films and some time is also required. As temperature increases, chemical reactivity increases the film formation rate, while the film removal rate increases due to thg decrease of durability of the boundary film material. There is a balance between these two competing mechanisms and this balance is reflected in the boundary film thickness.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.248-256
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• 1999

Many tribological components in automobile engine undergo high load and sliding speed with thin film thickness. The lubrication characteristics of the components are regarded as ether hydrodynamic lubrication or boundary lubrication, whereas in a working cycle they actually have both characteristics. Many modem engine lubricants have various additives for better performance which make boundary film formation even under hydrodynamic lubrication regime. Conventional Reynolds equation with the viewpoints of continuum mechanics concerns only bulk viscosity of lubricant, which means that its simulation does not give insights on boundary lubrication characteristics. However, many additives of modern engine lubricant provide mixed modes of boundary lubrication characteristics and hydrodynamic lubrication. Especially, high molecular weight polymeric viscosity index improvers form boundary film on the solid surface and cause non-Newtonian fluid effect of shear thinning. This study has performed the investigation about journal bearing system with the mixed concepts of boundary lubrication and hydrodynamic lubrication which happen concurrently in many engine components under the condition of viscosity index improver added.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.211-218
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• 2002

The effect of characteristic of surface roughness and roughness patterns on friction was studied experimentally in boundary lubrication with reciprocating tribometer. Roughness was changed from Ra=0.2($\mu\textrm{m}$)to Ra=1.2($\mu\textrm{m}$). Three roughness pattern-transverse, oblique, longitudinal- were tested for various load and velocity. The experimental results show that the scuffing resistance of surfaces with transversal roughness pattern is higher than that of surface with longitudinal and obliq pattern. under the conditions of the roughness values of Ra=0.2, 0.5,1.0 and 1.2. surfacer roughness (Ra) was decreased with the normal load increased before scuffing occurred. oblique pattern and longitudinal pattern with Ra=0.2 and Ra=1.0 was higher scuffing load under low sliding velocity, but with Ra=0.5 was higher scuffing load under high sliding velocity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1990.06a
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• pp.45-52
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• 1990

고도의 신뢰도를 요구하는 정밀기계의 보편화는 트라이볼로지 요소중에서 밀봉기능에 관련된 시일의 해석 및 설계가 커다란 관심사로 부각되었다. 특히 고속회전을 요하는 경우에 대한 회전 시스템의 동적 안정성은 대단히 중요하다. 미끄럼 접촉운동을 하고 있는 기계평면시일의 시일링 간극은 대단히 작기 때문에 시일의 접촉면에서 형상이 변화하게 되면 시일 성능은 커다란 영향을 받게 된다. 시일의 접촉표면 가공시 발생되는 평면도(flatness), 조립시의 회전축과 시일축 사이의 중심 맞추기의 어려움, 회전축의 자중량 등 때문에 발생되는 회전링 사이의 상대적인 경사도(misalignment)는 시일의 동적 불안정성에 영향을 준다. 또한 상대 접촉 운동면에서 경계 또는 고체 마찰에 의한 마멸의 진행은 시일의 코닝(coning) 현상을 일으킨다. 본 연구에서는 비압축성 유체가 온도의 영향을 받아 점도가 선형적으로 변화하는 경우에 대한 시일링 간극 내에서의 압력분포를 유한차분법을 이용하여 해석하였다. 여기서 얻어진 결과를 이용하여 시일의 축력과 모우멘트를 해석함으로써 시일의 동적 불안정성에 대하여 논하였다. 이 때 기계평면 시일의 형상은 코닝이 있고, 시일의 중심축이 경사진 경우를 고려하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.212-217
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• 1998

Reynolds equation, which describes behavior of fluid film in journal bearing, basically satisfies mass conservation. But, boundary conditions usually used with this equation, e.g. half Sommerfeld or Reynolds boundary conditions, cannot fulfill this natural law of conservation. In the case of connecting rod bearing, where applied load is dynamic and its magnitude is relatively large, such unrealistic boundary conditions have serious influence on calculation results, especially on lubricant flow rate or power dissipation which are important parameters in thermal analysis. Another important factor in the analysis of connecting rod bearing is elastic deformation of bearing support structure which is relatively flexible. In this paper, EHL analysis of connecting rod beating is performed using mass-conserving boundary condition. Elastic deformation of bearing support structure and application of mass-conserving boundary condition have significant effects on the performances of connecting rod bearing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2003

The tribological properties of amphiphilic monolayers and composite multilayer on silicon surface were investigated using micro-tribometer and Auger Electron Spectroscopy. Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) monolayers from behenic acid. 2.4-heneicosanedione(HD) and its copper complex((HD)$_2$Cu) were fabricated on silicon surface and the composite multilayer of 5-bilayer of (HD)$_2$Cu was fabricated on the surface of octadecyltrichlorsilane (OTS) self-assembled monolayer(SAM). We observed that LB monolayers and the composite multilayer exhibited a steady and excellent friction response when compared with the OTS SAM. These LB mono and multilayer also showed much higher wear-resistance than the OTS SAM.