The Comparison and Analysis on the Approaches of Lubricant Oil-Thickness Testing

Abstract:

This paper describes the comparison on the approaches of bearing lubricant oil-thickness testing .The comparison and analysis involves in the areas of classification of methodsbackground theoryapplied range and experiment between refined optical method and new ultrasonic method. The result of optical method modify the result of ultrasonic method, which has a guidance on the development of testing lubricant oil-film thickness. It describes an ultrasonic array , based on the traditional single-element transducer. In this way, the two dimensional oil-thickness distributions can be extracted by data processing. The development of ultrasonic approach benefits the goal of monitoring bearing lubrication condition online , which demonstrates the potential value of the ultrasonic approach. The implications for improved measurement methods are then discussed.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 749)
• Pages: 571-575
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.749.571
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Si Yuan Ai
• Keywords: Monitoring Online, Oil-Thickness, Optical Approach, Ultrasonic Approach, Ultrasonic Array

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