The history of the Stribeck curve and ball bearing steels: The role of Adolf Martens

The historical development on the discoveries of lubrication regimes for lubricated sliding contacts has been reviewed from the very beginning. It was found that the functional relationship between the coefficient of friction and the product of sliding speed and viscosity divided by the normal load...

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Published inWear Vol. 268; no. 11; pp. 1542 - 1546
Main Authors Woydt, Mathias, Wäsche, Rolf
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 12.05.2010
Elsevier
Subjects
Applied sciences
Exact sciences and technology
Fluid dynamics
Fluid flow
Friction, wear, lubrication
Gümbel
Hirn
Hydrodynamics
Lubrication
Machine components
Martens
Mechanical engineering. Machine design
Steels
Stribeck
Stribeck curve
Thurston
Towers
Viscosity
Wear
Stribeck
Stribeck curve
Gümbel
Martens
Thurston
Hirn
Viscosity
Sliding wear
Mechanical contact
Experimental study
History
Stribeck effect
Sliding contact
Friction coefficient
Ball bearing steel
Lubrication
Tribology
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Summary:The historical development on the discoveries of lubrication regimes for lubricated sliding contacts has been reviewed from the very beginning. It was found that the functional relationship between the coefficient of friction and the product of sliding speed and viscosity divided by the normal load well known as the Stribeck curve has been experimentally explored much earlier by Adolf Martens in 1888 long before Richard Stribeck did his pioneering measurements in 1902. However, basic work in this field of experimental hydrodynamics was done and results were published even earlier than that back in 1854 by Gustave A. Hirn, in 1879 by Robert H. Thurston and in 1883 by Beauchamp Tower.
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ISSN:0043-1648
1873-2577
DOI:10.1016/j.wear.2010.02.015