| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N12541/01 |
| Title: |
COMBINING MATERIALS AND LUBRICATION SCIENCE TO STUDY BOUNDARY WEAR FILMS USING XPS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Neville, Professor A |
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| Department: |
Sch of Engineering and Physical Science |
| Organisation: |
Heriot-Watt University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 February 2001 |
Ends: |
31 March 2003 |
Value (£): |
111,133
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| Materials Characterisation |
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Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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Fuel economy in the automotive industry translates to a need to reduce friction losses and wear in engine components. This is strongly related to the increasingly stringent legislation being implemented to ensure that emission levels continue to fall to acceptable levels. To date, progress towards reducing wear rates and associated improved performance of engine components has been in either one or two areas; advanced materials or lubrication/additive science. There is a real need for an interdisciplinary approach to merge these two areas which, in the practical automotive applications are inseparable, but have, in practice, received little combined attention. Funding is requested for access to the scienta ESCA facility at Daresbury to investigate wear film characteristics over a two-year period. The proposal focuses on assessing, by XPS analysis supported by surface measurements made using ESEM and AFM, the spatial and depth characteristics of wear films formed on boundary lubricated surfaces. The programme is focused towards two generic types of surface with widely different physical and chemical characteristics and it is concentrated on DDP-type lubricants (Zn and Mo-based) containing and without added Ca-based detergents. The work is complementary to that being carried out as part of the on-going research programme GR/L74163.
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