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Research Article | Open Access

The influence of temperature on ultrasonic signals in online measurement of oil film thickness

Yaping Jia1Pan Dou1,2( )Peiping Yang3Tonghai Wu1( )Shuo Wang1Yaguo Lei1Min Yu2
Key Laboratory of Education Ministry for Modern Design and Rotor-Bearing System, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Dongfang Electric Machinery Co., Ltd., Deyang 618000, China
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Abstract

Ultrasonic reflection provides a real-time way to monitor oil film thickness in a running machine with a nondestructive advantage. However, the influence mechanism of temperature on reference signals has not been clarified thus far, which hinders the precise measurement of oil film thickness. Focusing on a common three-layer structure of sensor–adhesive–steel, a global propagation model is constructed to investigate variations in the reference signal with temperature. Through finite element simulations, distinct influence mechanisms are revealed for different components. For piezoelectric sensors and the adhesive layer, temperature may induce amplitude attenuation and wave extensions in the reference signal. In the steel component, only an overall time shift is observed in the reference signal. Subsequently, a compensation model is established and validated through temperature-controlled experiments. Within the effective bandwidth, the compensation model achieves a relative error of ±2% and an absolute error of ±0.02 radians for the amplitude and phase of the reference waves.

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Jia Y, Dou P, Yang P, et al. The influence of temperature on ultrasonic signals in online measurement of oil film thickness. Friction, 2025, 13(5): 9440962. https://doi.org/10.26599/FRICT.2025.9440962

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Received: 05 January 2024
Revised: 29 May 2024
Accepted: 03 July 2024
Published: 09 December 2024
© The Author(s) 2025.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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