A Review of Piston Compression Ring Tribology

Abstract

This paper presents studies related to piston compression ring tribology and the theoretical and experimental works developed to analyze ring-liner contact friction. The literatures revealed that the simulation and experimental work are more independently investigated. The correlation of modeling output with experimental output is presented in limited number of research works. The experimental work to capture data from a running engine is also in basic level.

Keywords

• Compression ring
• Cylinder liner
• Tribology
• Thermo elastohydrodynamics
• Texture
• Film thickness