Journal
LUBRICANTS
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/lubricants10030036
Keywords
grease; lubrication; rolling element bearings
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Funding
- Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [777629]
- program Mobilitat der Zukunft of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action (BMK)
- Province Styria (Land Steiermark)
- Styrian Business Promotion Agency (SFG)
- COMET K2 Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action (BMK)
- Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW)
- Province of Styria
- H2020 Societal Challenges Programme [777629] Funding Source: H2020 Societal Challenges Programme
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This literature review examines grease lubrication in rolling bearings and discusses potential ways to improve the service life of greases, with a focus on their application in rail wheel bearings. Understanding the fundamental lubrication processes is crucial for increasing the service life of rail wheel bearings.
Billions of rolling bearings (RB) are in use today in a broad and diverse range of applications. In the mobility sector, RB help to reduce friction losses and increase efficiency. In rail applications, the rail wheel rolling bearing is a critical component, which requires a strict maintenance schedule. In this literature review, grease lubrication in RB is reviewed and potential ways to improve the service life of greases in RB are discussed with special emphasis on the application as rail wheel bearing. Understanding the discussed fundamental lubrication processes is the key to increase the service life of the rail wheel bearings and might provide a basis for future work that aims to make maintenance of these bearings condition-based (condition-based maintenance). This review is primarily intended for R&D professionals from rail (and related) industry and others being interested in a rather brief, but fundamental, overview of this subject.
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