Research on the Performance of Space Liquid Lubrication System with Oil-Storage

Abstract:

The gravity oil feed method dose not suit for microgravity environment as the same way dose for ground lubrication system. It is the key problem to be solved that how to supply the oil to friction surface in space liquid lubrication system. It analyzed the lubricating manner. A space liquid lubrication system was designed based on a principle of using deformation energy to supply oil. In the analysis of its basic structure and operating principle, the film calculation mode was established based on the elastohydrodynamic lubrication theory. The lubricating performance was simulated by ANSYS finite element analysis software in microgravity. The calculation results show that: in the microgravity, it could achieve elastohydrodynamic lubrication on friction surface in this lubrication system. When the oil supply hole diameter is 2mm, the film-thickness ratio changes between 1.91 and 4.28. It belongs to elastohydrodynamic lubrication. The hole diameter decreases, the film thickness reduces. The minimum film-thickness ratio is 0.93 when the temperature changes widely from -50°C~+80°C. It belongs to boundary lubrication state.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 479-481)
• Pages: 2393-2397
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.479-481.2393
• Online since: February 2012
• Authors: Fen Zhu Ji, Yu Chen Guo, Fa Rong Du, Shu Chun Yang, Bin Xu
• Keywords: Film-Thickness Ratio, Liquid Lubrication, Lubricating Performance, Oil Film, Space

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