Special Issue: Textured Surfaces

Volume 229 Number 4 April 2015

Special Issue: Textured Surfaces Contents

Editorial Guest editorial - Textured Surfaces

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R Rahmani and H Rahnejat

Special Issue Articles Combined numerical and experimental investigation of the micro-hydrodynamics of chevron-based textured patterns influencing conjunctional friction of sliding contacts

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N Morris, M Leighton, M De la Cruz, R Rahmani, H Rahnejat and S Howell-Smith

Analysis of friction in surface textured components of reciprocating mechanism

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Y Kligerman and A Shinkarenko

Improving thermal performance of mechanical seals via surface texturing

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Nian Xiao and MM Khonsari

An experimental analysis of the hydrodynamic contribution of textured thrust bearings during steady-state operation: A comparison with the untextured parallel surface configuration

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Y Henry, J Bouyer and M Fillon

Performance comparison between textured, pocket, and tapered-land sector-pad thrust bearings using computational fluid dynamics thermohydrodynamic analysis

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DG Fouflias, AG Charitopoulos, CI Papadopoulos, L Kaiktsis and M Fillon

Tribological behaviours of textured surfaces under conformal and non-conformal starved lubricated contact conditions

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S Wos, W Koszela and P Pawlus

Tribological investigation of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene against advanced ceramic surfaces in total hip joint replacement

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D Choudhury, T Roy, I Krupka, M Hartl and R Mootanah

Reducing the friction of lubricated nonconformal point contacts by transverse shallow micro-grooves

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F Ali, I Krˇupka and M Hartl

Some innovative surface texturing techniques for tribological purposes HL Costa and IM Hutchings

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Finite element investigation of friction and wear of microgrooved cutting tool in dry machining of AISI 1045 steel

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J Ma, NH Duong and S Lei

Evaluation of discretization and integration methods for the analysis of finite hydrodynamic bearings with surface texturing

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T Woloszynski, P Podsiadlo and GW Stachowiak

Texture-induced cavitation bubbles and friction reduction in the Elrod–Adams model

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HM Checo, A Jaramillo, M Jai and GC Buscaglia

Partial surface texturing: A mechanism for local flow reconditioning in lubricated contacts

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M Scaraggi

Effects of surface texturing in steady-state and transient flow conditions: Two-dimensional numerical simulation using a mass-conserving cavitation model

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A Gherca, A Fatu, M Hajjam and P Maspeyrot

Transient effects in lubricated textured bearings

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S Medina, MT Fowell, S-C Vladescu, T Reddyhoff, I Pegg, AV Olver and D Dini

Design principles for the area density of dimple patterns

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X Wang, J Wang, B Zhang and W Huang

The load-carrying capacity and friction coefficient of incompressible textured parallel slider bearings with surface roughness inside the texture features M Qiu and B Raeymaekers

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