Rolling Line Contact Problems in Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication: Modeling and Validation

A computer package has been developed and applied to solve line contact Problems of elastohydrodynamic lubrication. The solutions computed by the package are maintained and are indexed by two dimensionless parameters, alpha and lambda, within a database. Power law surfaces are fitted to the minimum film thickness and maximum pressure for each solution and are compared to interpolated surfaces of the same data, to film thickness measurements and to equations published previously in the literature.