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Optical measurements of cavitation in tribological contacts

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posted on 2016-01-08, 09:52 authored by Tian Tang, Nick MorrisNick Morris, Jeremy CouplandJeremy Coupland
The paper describes the use of a white light interformeter to measure the cavitation bubble and oil film thickness in a tribological contact and compares the results to theory. It is found that oil film thickness is best predicted by the theory proposed by Coyne and Elrod. .

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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9th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2015)

Volume

Journal of Physics: Conference Series 656

Citation

TANG, T., MORRIS, N.J. and COUPLAND, J.M., 2015. Optical measurements of cavitation in tribological contacts. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 656, 012119.

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© The Authors. Published by IOP.

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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2015

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This paper was also presented at the 9th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2015), Laussane Switzerland, on Dec 6-10th. This is an Open Access Article. It is published under licence in Journal of Physics: Conference Series by IOP Publishing Ltd under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

ISSN

1742-6588

eISSN

1742-6596

Language

  • en

Location

Laussane Switzerland

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