Numerical Modeling of Wear in a Thrust Roller Bearing under Mixed Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication

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Winkler, Andreas ; Marian, Max ; Tremmel, Stephan ; Wartzack, Sandro:
Numerical Modeling of Wear in a Thrust Roller Bearing under Mixed Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication.
In: Lubricants. Vol. 8 (22 May 2020) Issue 5 . - No. 58.
ISSN 2075-4442
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants8050058

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Increasing efforts to reduce frictional losses and the associated use of low-viscosity lubricants lead to machine elements being operated under mixed lubrication. Consequently, wear effects are also gaining relevance. Appropriate numerical modeling and predicting wear in a reliable manner offers new possibilities for identifying harmful operating conditions or for designing running-in procedures. However, most previous investigations focused on simplified model contacts and the wear behavior of application-oriented contacts is relatively underexplored. Therefore, the contribution of this paper was to provide a numerical procedure for studying the wear evolution in the mixed elastohydrodynamically lubricated (EHL) roller/raceway contact by coupling a finite element method (FEM)-based 3D EHL model with surface topography changes following a local Archard-type wear model, a Greenwood–Williamson-based load-sharing approach and the Sugimura surface adaption model. This study applied the operating conditions of an 81212 thrust roller bearing, considering realistic geometry and locally varying velocities. The calculated wear profiles in the raceway featured asymmetries, which were in good agreement with the experimental results reported in the literature and could be correlated with the velocity and slip distribution. In addition, the effects of speed, load and oil viscosity were investigated by means of four load cases and two lubricants, demonstrating the broad range of applying the numerical approach.

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Item Type:	Article in a journal
Refereed:	Yes
Keywords:	Multi-scale tribo-simulation; Wear modeling; Mixed lubrication; Elastohydrodynamic lubrication; Machine elements; Thrust roller bearing
Institutions of the University:	Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science > Chair Engineering Design and CAD Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science > Former Professors > Chair Engineering Design and CAD - Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Rieg Profile Fields > Advanced Fields > Advanced Materials Profile Fields > Emerging Fields > Energy Research and Energy Technology Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science Profile Fields Profile Fields > Advanced Fields Profile Fields > Emerging Fields Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science > Former Professors
Result of work at the UBT:	No
DDC Subjects:	600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 620 Engineering
Date Deposited:	14 Sep 2020 09:37
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2020 09:37
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/56903