In the field of industrial tribology,
elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) is a comparatively
recent area of research. It only became properly
established in the early 1960s. EHL of rolling contact
is mainly divided to two phases (soft and hard),
depending on the elasticity modulus of the material in
contact. Hard rolling which relates to materials of
high modulus of elasticity e.g. metal, is the part of
interesting the present study. The f1rst objective of the research is to study
the elastohydrodynamic
rolling line contact.
lubr1cat1on problem of hard
Second is to investigate the
isothermal and thermal conditions for EHL in hard
rolling system. The contact geometry of the rolling
process was specified as a line contact. An
in compressible fluid flows in to the system. Under both
isothermal and thermal conditions, a Newton1an
lubricant was descr1bed. Two different widely used
lubricants were tested. First, is a mineral Naphthenic
(TN22) and the second is asynthetic Cycloaliphatic
(ST40). It is assumed that two rollers of equal radius are
moving relatively with same speed on a plane of
d1fferent velocity. Two coord1nate axe s were considered
(x and y). The parameters and conditions of controlling
the system of contact are theoretically selected to
match the practical field situations. Newton-Raphson
and the finite difference methods were represented in
the mathematical technique used for computations