Liquid superlubricity of lubricants containing hydroxyl groups and their aqueous solution under rolling/sliding conditions

Tomáš POLÁČEK; Petr ŠPERKA; Ivan KŘUPKA

doi:10.1007/s40544-023-0762-6

Friction 2024, 12(1): 164-173 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-023-0762-6

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Liquid superlubricity of lubricants containing hydroxyl groups and their aqueous solution under rolling/sliding conditions

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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Brno 61669, Czech Republic

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elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL), film thickness, macroscale superlubricity, super low traction, water-based lubricants

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POLÁČEK T, ŠPERKA P, KŘUPKA I. Liquid superlubricity of lubricants containing hydroxyl groups and their aqueous solution under rolling/sliding conditions. Friction, 2024, 12(1): 164-173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-023-0762-6

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Macroscale rolling/sliding conditions are in the superlubricity, a little-studied topic so far. The purpose of this paper is to examine the formation of elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) films by water-based lubricants (glycerol and polyethylene glycol (PEG)), providing superlubricous friction. Experiments were carried out on an optical ball-on-disc tribometer under rolling/sliding conditions. The film thickness was measured by the thin film colorimetric interferometry, and the viscosity of liquids was measured by rotational and high-pressure falling body viscometers. The results show that tribochemical reactions are not the mandatory reason for friction to reach the superlubricity level when using the water-based lubricants. The studied liquids themselves are almost Newtonian. With the addition of water, the signs of shear thinning behavior disappear even more. Suitable conditions for this type of lubricant can be predicted using the known Hamrock–Dowson equations. An anomaly in the thickness of the lubricants was observed as an abrupt change at certain conditions. The more PEG there is in the lubricant, the higher the thickness at the beginning of the jump.

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Liquid superlubricity of lubricants containing hydroxyl groups and their aqueous solution under rolling/sliding conditions

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Tomáš POLÁČEK(

), Petr ŠPERKA, Ivan KŘUPKA

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Brno 61669, Czech Republic

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Keywords: elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL), film thickness, macroscale superlubricity, super low traction, water-based lubricants

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Received: 08 November 2022

Revised: 14 January 2023

Accepted: 21 March 2023

Published: 28 July 2023

Issue date: January 2024

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The research was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (No. 21-28352S).

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