Piston rings are responsible for a major part of the frictional losses in a heavy-duty diesel engine. Such losses can be reduced by applying texture, such as dimples, on the cylinder liner surface. This paper investigates the effect of such texture on the friction between a land of the oil control ring and a textured cylinder liner via numerical simulation. A simulation model considering inertia and mixed lubrication together with a mass-conserving cavitation model is developed. The model is used to determine the dimple parameters that yield the lowest amount of friction for a specific oil control ring of a heavy-duty diesel engine.
This paper describes a numerical simulation model for prediction of the tribological effects of an oil control ring running against an out-of-round cylinder liner in a heavy duty diesel engine. The model considers the full three-dimensional geometry of the oil control ring and includes the effect of both surface roughness and global deformation. Results that test the model's ability to do this under stationary conditions are presented. Furthermore, stationary results for prediction of the friction reduction possible by reduced ring tension in combination with reduced out-of-roundness are given. The model predicts the friction for the oil control ring at mid-stroke to be 78% larger in an out-of-round cylinder liner compared to a perfectly cylindrical one.
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