M.O.A. Mokhtar

TL;DR: In this article, the performance characteristics of hydrostatic thrust bearing were evaluated using a test rig and a specially devised computer program using an iterative technique has been adopted to compute numerically the pressure distribution and predict other performance characteristics.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown experimentally that hard metals have lower frictional resistance than softer metals owing to stronger interatomic linking bonds and hence the resistance to adhesion is increased, providing low frictional characteristics.

TL;DR: In this article, a dynamically loaded thrust bearing with as annular recess is presented and the effect of non-parallelism between the bearing and the runner surfaces is also considered, since this is a common problem in hydrostatic thrust bearings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the sliding friction of similar metals and of metals sliding against a steel specimen was investigated for most commonly used metals in terms of their fundamental physical properties including atomic volume, surface energy and thermal properties.

TL;DR: A journal bearing test rig was designed and constructed to test the behavior of journals with wavy surfaces, the circumferential undulations being varied both in amplitude and in number as discussed by the authors.