• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.75-78
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• 2004

Engine power cylinder parts are faced with more severe wear and friction environment. For instance, emission gas recirculation (EGR), one of the most valid technologies related to emission legislation, is known to accelerate wear of piston ring and cylinder liner. Therefore, advanced materials and surface treatments have been developed and adopted successively so that a need exists for an accurate and repeatable friction and wear bench test for various combination of piston ring and cylinder liner that more closely relates to engine test result. This paper introduces accelerative bench wear test method for piston ring and cylinder liner, presents the experimental result of friction and wear properties of piston ring surface treatments that noticed in substitution for hard chrome plating.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.83-92
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• 2005

A piston assembly is very important because it directly receives the energy generated during combustion process. Surely, the friction and lubrication of piston-ring pack do an important role in the performance and fuel economy of an engine. In fact, the friction loss in piston-ring pack is the biggest portion to the whole engine friction. Therefore, the improvement of lubrication quality and friction loss in piston-ring pack will be directly related with the improvement in the performance and fuel economy of an engine. Meanwhile, the oil consumption and blow-by gas through piston-cylinder-ring crevices have to be controlled as less as possible. In these two aspects, the study on the optimized design of piston-ring pack has to be carried out. In this study, for the efficient design of piston-ring pack, it is focused to develop a basic computer program that predicts the inter-ring pressure, the motion of ring and the blow-by gas through a crevice volume model between adjacent rings, and the oil film thickness and the friction computed by lubrication theories.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.37-43
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• 1998

The friction loss between piston rings and cylinder liner is due to the tension of the piston rings. Lubricant is usually supplied to reduce the friction. However, the sliding speed of the piston varies during the reciprocating cycle and is very low near TDC(Top Dead Center)/BDC(Bottom Dead Center), where the hydrodynamic lubrication cannot be sustained. Since the lubrication regime is shifted from the hydrodynamic to the boundary lubrication near TDC/BDC, wear particles are easily generated so that the friction loss becomes bigger and bigger due to the plowing effect of wear particles. In this study, for the purpose of reducing the friction loss, an undulated surface is adopted to the cylinder liner to trap wear particles. The friction force variations, which are measured by strain gaged, show that the concept of undulated surface is one of the promising methods to effectively reduce the friction between piston rings and cylinder liner.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.114-120
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• 2000

This paper reports on the theoretical analysis on the lubrication characteristics between the piston ring and the grooved cylinder liner. The circular shape piston ring and two types grooves are consider, and the minimum oil film thickness during the full engine cycle are obtained by using iterative technique. The comparative results of minimum oil film thickness and viscous friction force between the smooth and grooved liner are presented. And various design parameter of piston ring and liner groove are tested. The groove in the liner generally reduces the minimum value of minimum oil film thickness, but the maximum viscous friction force is increased at the minimum film position.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1988.06a
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• pp.28-30
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• 1988

윤활시스템에서 마모는 상대적인 운동을 하는 두 물체사이에서 표면상태, 접촉조건 및 분위기등의 제요소들에 의해 발생되며, 형태학적으로 scuffing, scoring, pitting 및 fretting 등으로 분류된다. 윤활조건의 특성에 따라 미끄럼 접촉에서는 mild wear, severe wear로 구분되며, 이들의 마모 생성기구의 차이는 접촉상대속도, 하중 및 표면조도등의 정도에 기인된다. mild wear에서 severe wear 영역으로 전이될 때의 가혹한 조건에서 생성되는 마모현상을 scuffing wear라 하며, 이는 접촉면에서의 표면돌기의 직접접촉에 의한 cold welding 현상, 즉 local welds의 특성을 지닌 마멸형태로 정의한다. 이의 생성은 접점간의 하중 및 미끄럼 속도가 증가됨에 따라 온도상승에 기인되어 순간적으로 발생된 마찰열이 그 원인이 있으며, 기어, cam 및 tappet, 피스톤링 및 실린더 라이너 등의 마멸현상이 대표적인 예이다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.51-58
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• 1998

This paper considers analysis of the lubrication between the piston ring and the cylinder liner. Piston ring lubrication analysis considering oil transport is important because oil consumption is an essential factor to design the piston assembly. To develop the lubrication analysis program for the piston ring, oil continuity condition and open-end boundary assumption are used for computational boundaries. Results show that oil continuity can be almost satisfied at any crank angle in and out of the piston ring clearance. Therefore the amount of oil consumption and the dynamic behavior of ring pack can be estimated using this algorithm. And it can be known that the effective width may be smaller than the full width of the piston ring, so oil starvation condition should be considered for the lubrication analysis of the piston ring.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 1993

Tribology는 미끄럼 혹은 구름베어링, 피스톤링, 기어, 공구, 그밖의 상대적 움직임하에 있는 부품의 설계 및 제조와 관련된 학문이다. 또한 tribology는 서로 접촉하는 재료의 적절한 사용, 윤활유와의 상호작용 이해 및 적절한 선택을 통해 마모와 마찰의 감소 혹은 최적의 마찰(브레이크, 벨트 등의 경우)을 위해 연구되는 분야이다. 부품의 내마모성을 향상시키고 적절한 마찰계수를 얻기 위해서는 기계 설계, 윤활유 선택 및 개발, 재료의 선택 및 개발 등 여러 분야의 기여가 모두 필요하다. 지금까지는 전통적으로 사용되어 오던 재료, 특히 금속재료를 중심으로 하여 기계 및 윤활제 개발 등에 치중하여 왔다. 그러나 산업이 발전되고 복잡화됨에 따라 극한 분위기 즉 고온, 고진공하에서의 장시간 사용과 고효율 등을 요구하여 최근의 tribology 분야에 사용되는 부품들의 신소재로의 대체를 요구하고 있다. 한 예로 지금의 엔진보다 더 고온에서 작동되는 고효율의 경량의 첨단 열엔진의 개발을 들 수 있다. 이러한 열 엔진의 사용목적을 달성하기 위해서는 기존의 금속재료로는 고온에서 작동괴기에는 너무 약하고 무겁기 때문에 구조용 세라믹스가 고려되고 있는 것이다. 신소재 분야중 세라믹스는 고기능성 부품과 이미 산업화된 분야의 부품의 대체 재료로 주목을 받고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.167-172
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• 1998

An algorithm of Thermal-elastohydrodynamic lubrication analysis for the piston ring is developed. This algorithm contains cavitation boundary condition so it automatically satisfies conservation of mass. 1-D Reynolds equation and 2-D energy equation are solved simultaneously by using Gauss-Jordan method and Newton-Raphson method. Minimum film thickness and friction force are calculated for 1 cycle. There is little difference between the results caculated by isothermal rigid and EHL analysis in entire cycle. In the results of THL, shear heating effect and temperature boundary condition affect the minimum film thickness and friction force prediction. The minimum film thickness and the friction force calculated by THL are lower than those caculated using isothermal assumption.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.358-364
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• 1998

Lubricational characteristics at the interface between the piston ring and the cylinder liner are considered in this paper. To verify that surface shape and operating conditions of the engine can affect the state of lubrication, the changes of the minimum film thickness and friction force are calculated with various conditions. Oil starvation and open-end boundary condition are used to determine computational boundaries as reported on previous paper for lubrication analysis for the piston ring. From this analysis, it can be found that lubricational characteristics are seriously affected by degree of oil starvation, surface shape and operating conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1992.11a
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• pp.19-30
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• 1992

Tribology는 미끄럼 혹은 구름 베어링, 피스톤 링, 기어, 공구, 그밖의 상대적 움직임하에 있는 부품의 설게 및 제조에 관련된다. 또한 tribology는 서로 접촉하는 재료의 적절한 사용, 윤활유 와의 상호작용 이해 및 적절한 선택을 통해 마모와 마찰의 감소 혹은 최적의 마찰 (브레이크, 벨트 등의 경우)을 얻기 위해 연구되는 학문이다. 이러한 연구분야 중의 하나는 재료의 개발과 선택을 통해 목표를 달성하는 것인데 지금까지는 전총적으로 사용되어 오던 금속 재료를 중심으로 하는 연구에 치중하여 왔다. 최근의 tribology 분야는 점차로 극심한 조건과 더 좋은 효율을 요구한다. 한 예로 지금의 엔진 보다 더 고온에서 작동되는 고 효율의 감량의 첨단의 열 엔진의 개발을 들수 있다. 이러한 열 엔진의 사용 목적을 달성하기 위해서는 기존의 금속 재료로는 고온에서 작동되기 너무 약하고 무겁기 때문에 구조용 세라믹스가 고려되고 있는 것이다. 이러한 잠재적인 분야의 응용의 신소재와 이미 산업화된 분야의 대체 재료로 세라믹스는 주목을 받고 있다. 본 란에서는 상기한 변수에 따른 마모 마찰 특성을 구조용 세라믹스를 중심으로 소개하고자 한다.