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  2. Abbott-Firestone curve - Wikipedia

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    The Abbott-Firestone curve was first described by Ernest James Abbott and Floyd Firestone in 1933. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is useful for understanding the properties of sealing and bearing surfaces. It is commonly used in the engineering and manufacturing of piston cylinder bores of internal combustion engines . [ 5 ]

  3. Sommerfeld number - Wikipedia

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    S is the Sommerfeld Number or bearing characteristic number r is the shaft radius c is the radial clearance μ is the absolute viscosity of the lubricant N is the speed of the rotating shaft in rev/s P is the load per unit of projected bearing area. The second part of the equation is seen to be the Hersey number.

  4. Stribeck curve - Wikipedia

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    The Stribeck curve is a fundamental concept ... (i.e. the product of a journal bearing's length ... The curves' characteristic minima seem to correspond to very low ...

  5. Richard Stribeck - Wikipedia

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    Richard Stribeck carried out studies in the field of tribology, focusing on friction in lubricated sliding contacts, such as journal bearings.His work lead to the development of the Stribeck Curve, a fundamental tribological concept that shows how operation conditions (in particular normal load, lubricant viscosity and lubricant entrainment velocity) influence the friction coefficient in fluid ...

  6. Surface roughness - Wikipedia

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    There are four distinct classes of SSR, each one of them representing a characteristic vertical length scale; the first class includes microrelief variations from individual soil grains to aggregates on the order of 0.053–2.0 mm; the second class consists of variations due to soil clods ranging between 2 and 100 mm; the third class of soil ...

  7. Contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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    It gives the contact stress as a function of the normal contact force, the radii of curvature of both bodies and the modulus of elasticity of both bodies. Hertzian contact stress forms the foundation for the equations for load bearing capabilities and fatigue life in bearings, gears, and any other bodies where two surfaces are in contact.

  8. Bearing capacity - Wikipedia

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    A foundation is a connecting link between the structure proper and the ground which supports it. The bearing strength characteristics of foundation soil are major design criterion for civil engineering structures. In nontechnical engineering, bearing capacity is the capacity of soil to support the loads applied to the ground.

  9. Characteristic curve - Wikipedia

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    Characteristic curve may refer to: In electronics, a current–voltage characteristic curve Semiconductor curve tracer, a device for displaying the above curve; In photography, a plot of film density: see sensitometry; In mathematics, used in the method of characteristics for solving partial differential equations.