Hydrodynamic Lubrication and Load Carrying Capacity Analysis of Laser Surface Texturing Valve Core

Abstract:

Take water hydraulic slide valve core as the research object. Laser surface texturing (LST) technology was used to improve the valve core carrying capacity and hydrodynamic lubrication characteristics, which can process micro-texture on the surface of the core. And CFD method was taken to calculate flow field of smooth and laser surface texturing core respectively. For studying the influence of valve core micro-texture and valve core overlap lengths on hydrodynamic lubrication characteristic and carrying capacity of the core, core surface pressure distribution, surface pressure and friction force curves were drawn. Results show: The smooth valve core does not produce hydrodynamic lubrication effect, but textured valve core can bring the oil film load capacity, so as to make the effect of mixed friction between valve core and sleeve weaken. And along with the decrease of the core overlap length, the carrying capacity on the surface of the textured valve core does not decrease but increase when the valve core overlap length amount is greater than 2.5mm.The results provide important theoretical reference of studying and applying LST process technology to the valve core friction pair’s lubrication performance.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 693)
• Pages: 348-355
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.693.348
• Online since: May 2016
• Authors: Tao He*, Chuan Li Wang, Hai Shun Deng, Yan Long Huang, Cao Feng Yu
• Keywords: Hydrodynamic Lubrication, Laser Surface Texturing, Micro-Texture, Valve Core

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