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    Lubrication involves using a fluid to create a film between sliding surfaces to reduce friction and prevent metal-to-metal contact. Good lubricants have properties like being able to wet metals, resisting water, adhering naturally, remaining stable at high temperatures, and transferring heat away. There are two types of friction - solid friction from contact between rigid bodies and fluid friction between layers of fluid. Factors that cause solid friction include surface roughness and welding of surfaces at high temperatures. Fluid friction comes from the viscosity of the lubricant resisting flow. Friction causes wear and the loss of energy as heat. Viscosity decreases with increasing temperature, so oils thin out and flow more easily when hot.

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    Lubrication involves using a fluid to create a film between sliding surfaces to reduce friction and prevent metal-to-metal contact. Good lubricants have properties like being able to wet metals, resisting water, adhering naturally, remaining stable at high temperatures, and transferring heat away. There are two types of friction - solid friction from contact between rigid bodies and fluid friction between layers of fluid. Factors that cause solid friction include surface roughness and welding of surfaces at high temperatures. Fluid friction comes from the viscosity of the lubricant resisting flow. Friction causes wear and the loss of energy as heat. Viscosity decreases with increasing temperature, so oils thin out and flow more easily when hot.

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    Practical Lubrication

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    Lubrication involves using a fluid to create a film between sliding surfaces to reduce friction and prevent metal-to-metal contact. Good lubricants have properties like being able to wet metals, resisting water, adhering naturally, remaining stable at high temperatures, and transferring heat away. There are two types of friction - solid friction from contact between rigid bodies and fluid friction between layers of fluid. Factors that cause solid friction include surface roughness and welding of surfaces at high temperatures. Fluid friction comes from the viscosity of the lubricant resisting flow. Friction causes wear and the loss of energy as heat. Viscosity decreases with increasing temperature, so oils thin out and flow more easily when hot.

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    PRACTICAL

    LUBRICATION
    ABDELHAMID MOSAAD ABDELHAMID
    CONDITION MONITORING ENGINEER
    Lubrication

    • The principle of supporting a sliding load on a friction reducing film.


    The prevention of metal-to-metal contact by means of an
    intervening layer of fluid.
    Lubricants

    • The substance of which the film is composed. All liquids will provide
    a sort of lubrication. But some do it better great than others.
    • What do we need from lubricants?
    • Metal wetting ability
    • good water resistance
    • Natural adhesiveness
    • Thermal stability
    • Transfer frictional heat away
    FRICTION

    • When one body slides across another a resistive force must be


    overcome. This force is called friction.
    • Two types of friction
    • Solid friction
    • It occurs when the two bodies are rigid
    • Fluid friction
    • It Becomes between fluid layers
    • Causes of Solid Friction
    • Surface roughness: Microscopic irregularities called asperities exist.
    The existence of this asperities causes friction
    • Tendency of flatter surface moving in opposite direction to weld
    together at high temperatures
    • Fluid friction
    • The viscosity of oil itself the source of friction. It does not cause wear
    but it Generates a certain amount of heat and drag
    • Viscosity is the resistance of fluid to flow
    • The flow is said to be laminar where there is no turbulence
    • The film may be assumed to be composed of extremely thin layers,
    or laminae, each moving in the same direction but at a different
    velocity
    Effect of friction

    • Work is required to overcome this friction, and the energy thus


    wasted entails a loss of power and efficiency.
    • Additionally, where there is solid friction, there I wear: a loss of
    material due to the cutting action of opposing asperities and to the
    shearing apart of infinitesimal welded surfaces.
    Effect of temperature on viscosity

    • As an oil is heated, its viscosity drops and it becomes thinner.


    Conversely, an oil becomes thicker if its temperature is reduced. The
    rate of change of viscosity relative to temperature called “Viscosity
    index”.
    • An oil that thins out less at higher temperatures and that thickens
    less at lower temperatures is said to have a higher V.I. (viscosity
    index).
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    The Academy offers all types of skills and
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    Analysis -Lubrication Management -
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    excellence. We offer various products, services and consultation that help any industrial environment improve
    and evolve towards reliability and world class manufacturing.

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