Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : December 05, 2022 - December 06, 2022
Matsumoto's equation, which determines the ratio of the friction coefficient between boundary lubrication and fluid lubrication by the ratio of the maximum height roughness and minimum oil film thickness, is often used to predict the friction coefficient on gear tooth surfaces. Recently, however, several papers using gears with highly smoothed tooth surfaces have reported discrepancies between the measured friction coefficient of tooth surface and Matsumoto's equation. It seems that the problem of how to determine the boundary lubrication friction coefficient lies behind these discrepancies. In this paper, the coefficient of tooth friction is determined under a wide range of lubrication conditions using ground spur gears, and the experimental results are compared with the calculation results of Matsumoto's equation to reevaluate the relationship between the two. The friction coefficient of boundary lubrication was found to vary with surface roughness of tooth surface.
