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Cavitation bubble measurement in tribological contacts using digital holographic microscopy

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posted on 2015-11-06, 09:34 authored by Tian Tang, Nick MorrisNick Morris, Jeremy CouplandJeremy Coupland, Laura Arevalo
The use of advanced measurement techniques such as the digital holography method described in this paper improves the understanding of the cavitation phenomenon in tribological contacts such as the sliding contact of the piston ring–cylinder liner conjunction. The paper describes the use of digital holography measurement technique to measure cavitation bubble formation and thickness. The position of observed lubricant film rupture preceding the cavitation region is compared with some commonly predicted boundary often used with Reynolds equation. The experimental results indicate that the Reynolds and Elrod boundary conditions are the most suitable for the investigated sliding contact conditions.

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The authors wish to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation for funding this work.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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TRIBOLOGY LETTERS

Volume

58

Citation

TANG, T. ...et al., 2015. Cavitation bubble measurement in tribological contacts using digital holographic microscopy. Tribology Letters, 58:5.

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© The Authors. Published by Springer

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2015-01-27

Publication date

2015-03-10

Copyright date

2015

Notes

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Springer under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

ISSN

1023-8883

eISSN

1573-2711

Language

  • en

Article number

5

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