Evaluation of cam and roller surfaces and their manufacturing process by functional characterisation

• Friction and wear are constant problems encountered in camshaft development. Thecontact between roller and cam is a mix of sliding and rolling which leads to a wide rangeof failure modes. The uniqueness of this contact is also due to variations all around thecam of a multitude of parameters. A previous study described surface topography as afunction of cam shape. The different types of wear mechanisms are strongly linked tocontact pressures which are also dependent on roughness. The aim of the paper is toevaluate the quality of camshafts and rollers produced with different manufacturinghistories. The evaluation utilises standard roughness parameters as well as rough contactparameters. The surfaces measurements are made by a non-contact light interferometerand a set of 3D roughness parameters is evaluated for each measure. The Greenwood-Williamson contact model has been developed and also applied to the measurements inorder to collect characteristics of the microscopic pressures. The results of the study showthe significant effect of topography variations on the tribological behaviour of the camroller contact and rank the different manufacturing processes according to functionalcharacterization. The verification of the ranking using experiments is the continuity of thisstudy.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

characterisation

camshaft

quality evaluation.

rough contact

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