Rapid calculation of the pressures and clearances in rough,rolling-sliding elastohydrodynamically lubricated contacts. Part 2: General,non-sinusoidal roughness

Abstract

Part 1 of this paper [1] described how the behaviour of low amplitude, sinusoidal roughness in elastohydrodynamically lubricated (EHL) contacts could be characterized by three complex quantities: attenuation of original profile, amplitude of complementary wave and its wave number and decay rate. This second part outlines how these results can be used to estimate, rapidly, the clearances and pressures in any rough EHL contact. The method is applied to a number of contacts for which accurate experimental results are available and it is shown that the process gives close estimates of the clearance and pressure distributions where the amplitude of the attenuated roughness is less than 50 per cent of the clearance and good indication of the behaviour of rougher surfaces.

Keywords

elastohydrodynamics rolling-sliding contacts rough elastohydrodynamics Fourier transform

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