Preliminary investigation of the effect of dimple size on friction in line contacts

The scale of surface texture is becoming an important issue of surface texture design, particularly for the condition of low speed and high load. Experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of dimple size on friction under line contact condition. The patterns of dimples distributed as square array were fabricated on the surface of brass disks. Each pattern has the same area density of 7%, the same depth over diameter ratio h/d of 0.03, and dimple diameter d varying from 20 to 60 μm. The frictional tests of the brass disk sliding against a stationary cylindrical surface of bearing roller were conducted. It was found that the pattern with dimple diameter of 20 μm presented the effect of friction reduction. For the further understanding of the effect of dimple size under line contact condition, numerical simulations were also carried out to evaluate the hydrodynamic pressure within the contact of cylindrical and plane surfaces. The effects of dimple size and radius of the cylinder on the load carrying capacity were evaluated and discussed.

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