マイクロディンプル表面におけるスクイーズ油膜挙動の可視化

抄録

Surface texturing is attracting much attention especially in the tribology field because for the effect improving the lubrication properties. However, most of studies on surface texturing conduced in the past focused the lubrication properties under a static load, and there are almost no papers on the dynamic characteristics of textured surfaces under a squeezing condition. From these backgrounds, the purpose of this research is to grasp the oil film behaviour on the textured surface under vertical vibration that simulates repeating squeeze motion. The oil film behavior under squeezing motion was observed by means of optical interferometry with two-color light. The experiment showed that the oil film shape in the contact circle under squeezing motion changed due to the existence of microdimples. Particularly, when the glass surface with 500 nm-depth microdimples was used, the oil film became thicker and the contact area became smaller than that when the non-textured surface was used.