Dans un marché aéronautique en plein essor marqué par une croissance rapide du parc d’avions utilisées à travers le monde, l’optimisation de la maintenance devient une préoccupation pour les avionneurs. Il s’agit de maximiser la disponibilité des aéronefs tout en réduisant les couts directs d’exploitation sans compromis sur la sécurité des hommes et en respectant les contraintes environnementales. Une stratégie possible pour relever ce challenge est de renforcer la capacité à anticiper les défaillances afin de recourir à des actions préventives le plus juste possible sur les composants les plus critiques comme les roulements à billes. La mise en œuvre de processus de Prognostic Health Management (PHM) prend ainsi une part grandissante et le processus de pronostic est considéré comme l’un des principaux leviers d’action. Son déploiement requiert que le comportement du système étudié puisse être observés. Il peut ainsi bénéficier de l’apport des récentes avancées dans le domaine des microsystèmes autonomes en énergie permettant des mesures intelligentes et un transfert de données d’une manière distribuée, sans aucune aide externe. L’association de ses deux champs de recherche mène naturellement vers le roulement intelligent qui pourrait être la transition d’une maintenance programmée à une maintenance prédictive. Cependant les solutions de PHM autour du roulement et le roulement intelligent, ne restent pas moins le fruit de l’évolution des techniques et technologies de surveillance, de récupération d’énergie et de connectivité. C’est dans ce cadre que s’inscrit ce mémoire de thèse par Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience (VAE). Il s’articule en trois parties principales : motivations du VAE, état de l’art autour du roulement mécatronique et exemple de contributions autour de la récupération d’énergie et la communication sans fil à des fins de surveillance. / The aeronautic market is growing and the aircraft fleet size is becoming bigger. Maintenance optimization is a key focus for liner since objectives are to maximize the aircraft availability and to reduce the direct cost of ownership with no compromise on the flight security and safety with respect to environmental standards. To meet this challenge one possible strategy is to apply a PHM approach using the recent advance in the autonomous embedded microsystem field. This PhD work presents some work done around energy harvesting and wireless sensor to enable a smart bearing able to measure the usage and health data from the component in the purpose of predictive mainteance.

L’étude du frottement dans les contacts lubrifiés fortement chargés est un sujet complexe. En effet, le frottement dépend fortement du comportement rhéologique du lubrifiant dans le centre du contact et, celui-ci n'est pas bien connu à pression et taux de cisaillement élevé. Diverses méthodes expérimentales ont été développées pour expliquer le comportement plateau dans les courbes de frottement, associé à l’existence d’une contrainte limite de cisaillement, mais aucune d'elles n'a fourni une image complète des mécanismes réels impliqués. Dans la continuité de ces efforts, des études sont présentées dans ce mémoire. Le premier défi dans ce travail est d'effectuer des mesures de frottement dans des conditions isothermes nominales, ce qui signifie que même si des effets thermiques doivent se produire dans toute mesure de frottement, il est possible de les minimiser et de rendre les résultats insensibles à une faible dissipation d'énergie dans le volume expérimental d'intérêt. La minimisation de l’échauffement du lubrifiant aide à se focaliser sur l’origine mécanique de la contrainte limite de cisaillement et de mieux caractériser sa dépendance à la pression et à la température. C'est pourquoi, tout d'abord, une série d'expériences a été réalisée sur deux lubrifiants, un diester pur (benzyl benzoate) et une huile minérale de turbine (Shell T9) avec des vitesses d'entraînement variables. Cela nous permet d'abord d'observer directement l'influence des effets thermiques sur les valeurs de la contrainte limite de cisaillement et ensuite, de déterminer les conditions expérimentales qui limitent ces effets tout en assurant un régime en film complet. Le deuxième objectif est de caractériser le comportement en frottement des lubrifiants sous conditions isothermes nominales et sur une large gamme de pression (jusqu'à 3 GPa) et de température (jusqu’à 80°C) afin d'établir un nouveau modèle découplé permettant de décrire la dépendance à la température et à la pression de la contrainte limite sous fortes charges. Enfin, l'étude se focalise sur la compréhension du comportement microscopique des lubrifiants dans des conditions extrêmes de cisaillement et de pression. Des mesures in situ de spectroscopie Raman et Brillouin ont été également effectuées sous conditions statiques, afin d'étudier le changement de phase du lubrifiant. / Friction in highly loaded lubricated contacts is a complex issue. Indeed, it highly depends on the lubricant rheological behaviour in the Hertzian region, which is not well known under such high pressure and high shear stress. Various experimental methods have been developed to explain the plateau-like behaviour in friction curves referred to as the limiting shear stress (LSS), but none of them provided a full picture of the real mechanisms involved. In a continuation of these efforts, some investigations are presented in this manuscript. The first challenge in this work is to carry out friction measurements under nominal isothermal conditions, meaning that even if thermal effects must occur in any friction measurement, it is possible to minimize them and to make the results almost insensitive to a weak energy dissipation within the experimental volume of interest. Minimizing shear heating of the lubricant help us to focus on the mechanical origin of the LSS and to better characterize its dependence to pressure and temperature. That’s why, first of all, a series of experiments was performed on two lubricants, a pure diester fluid (benzyl benzoate), and a commercial turbine mineral oil (Shell T9) with varying entrainment velocities. This allow us first to directly observe the influence of the lubricant shear heating on the LSS values and then to determine the experimental conditions which limit this thermal effect while ensuring a full film regime. The second objective is to characterize the frictional behavior of both lubricants under nominal isothermal conditions and over a wide range of pressure (up to 3 GPa) and temperature (up to 80°C) in order to establish a new uncoupled model to describe the temperature and pressure dependence of the limiting shear stress under highly loaded conditions. Finally, the study focuses on the understanding of the microscopic behavior of lubricants under extreme shear and pressure conditions. In situ Raman and Brillouin spectroscopy investigations were also conducted under static conditions, in order to study the lubricant phase changes under various pressure and temperature conditions.

The goal of this diploma thesis is to design the journal bearings for high pressure diesel pump which is part of Common rail system from Motorpal Company. This producer is also submitter of this diploma thesis and as a result it is expecting the reduction of cost price and possible transfer to the diesel oil lubrication. Firstly, there is sum up of issues of high pressure pump by Motorpal. The next part of the thesis describes the journal bearings and its construction, tribology of the journal bearings and also the overview of the materials. These materials are currently being used for securing long time usage and do not require service maintenance during lifespan period. In the practical part there is applied the Multy Body System (MBS) approach with rigid bodies and after that there are used analytic relations, which however do not include impact of movement of the journal center during dynamic stress. The thesis concludes with a comparison of results of both calculations and determination of bearing parameters, which according to the calculations ensure an achievement of hydrodynamic lubrication.

Additive Manufacturing (AM) for metals includes is a group of production methodst hat use a layer-by-layer approach to directly manufacture final parts. In recent years, the production rate and material quality of additive manufactured materials have improved rapidly which has gained increased interest from the industry to use AM not only for prototyping, but for serial production. AM offers a greater design freedom, compared to conventional production methods, which allows for parts with new innovative design. This is very attractive to the aerospace industry, in which parts could be designed to have reduced weight and improved performance contributing to reduced fuel consumption, increased payload and extended flight range. There are, however, challenges yet to solve before the potential of AM could be fully utilized in aerospace applications. One of the major challenges is how to deal with the poor fatigue behaviour of AM material with rough as-built surface. The aim of this thesis is to increase the knowledge of how AM can be used for high performance industrial parts by investigating the fatigue behaviour of the titanium alloy Ti6Al4V produced with different AM processes. Foremost, the intention is to improve the understanding of how rough as-built AM surfaces in combination with AM built geometrical notches affects the fatigue properties.This was done by performing constant amplitude fatigue testing to compare different combinations of AM material produced by Electron Beam Melting(EBM) and Laser Sintering (LS) with machined or rough as-built surfaces with or without geometrical notches and Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) treatment. Furthermore, the material response can be different between constant amplitude and variable amplitude fatigue loading due to effects of overloads and local plastic deformations. The results from constant amplitude testing were used to predict the fatigue life for variable amplitude loading by cumulative damage approach and these predictions were then verified by experimental variable amplitude testing. The constant amplitude fatigue strength of material with rough as-built surfaces was found to be 65-75 % lower, compared to conventional wrought bar, in which HIP treatments had neglectable influence on the fatigue strength. Furthermore, the fatigue life predictions with cumulative damage calculations showed good agreement with the experimental results which indicates that a cumulative damage approach can be used, at least for a tensile dominated load sequences, to predict the fatigue behaviour of additive manufactured Ti6Al4V.

Cette thèse porte sur l’amélioration du laminage à chaud, un procédé de fabrication sidérurgique permettant de transformer une brame de métal (10m de long, 1.5m de large et 250mm d’épaisseur) en une bande de tôle bobinée (1000m de long, 1m de large et 2mm d’épaisseur). Afin d’obtenir certaines propriétés mécaniques et de faciliter la phase de laminage, la brame est réchauffée à 1300°C et dégrossi avant d’être envoyé vers le train finisseur où elle est laminée en passant successivement dans plusieurs cages (ensemble de cylindres qui écrasent le métal) et qui permettent de réduire l’épaisseur à la valeur finale souhaitée. Le produit est finalement refroidi puis bobiné avant d’être envoyé au client. La thèse se focalise sur l’amélioration du train finisseur en proposant un contrôle du frottement entre la bande et les cylindres de travail à l’aide d’une lubrification. La lubrification consiste à déposer de l’huile sur le cylindre en vaporisant une émulsion d’eau et d’huile. L’huile déposée modifie l’interface entre la bande et le cylindre et diminue le coefficient de frottement. Cette diminution du coefficient de frottement a plusieurs avantages : elle permet de réduire l’usure des cylindres, d’améliorer l’état de surface de la bande, de réduire l’effort nécessaire de laminage donc la consommation d’énergie et d’augmenter la capacité du train. A l’inverse, un frottement trop bas dû à une lubrification trop importante peut causer un patinage de la bande entrainant l’arrêt du train. Il est donc important de contrôler le niveau de frottement de manière sécurisée. La conception du contrôle s’est faite à travers deux principales étapes : La modélisation et l’identification de l’effet de la lubrification sur le coefficient de frottement, la conception du contrôle du frottement / This thesis is about the improvement of the hot rolling process. This steelmaking process turns a slab (10m long, 1.5m wide, 250mm thick) into a coiled strip (1000m long, 1m wide, 2mm thick). To obtain some metallurgical properties and to make the rolling easier, the slab is heated up to 1300 ° C and roughly rolled before going to the finishing mill. In the finishing mill the strip is rolled through successive stands (set of rolls) to reduce the thickness to its final desired value. The product is finally cooled down and coiled before shipping it to the customers. The thesis focuses on the enhancement of the finishing mill through a friction control between the strip and the work rolls using lubrication. The lubrication consists in building up oil on the rolls by spraying an emulsion of water and oil. The deposited oil changes the contact interface between the strip and the roll and decreases the friction coefficient. The reduction of the friction presents the advantages of: reduce the roll wear, enhance the strip surface quality, decrease the rolling force (reduce then the energy consumption) and increase the mill capability. In the other hand, an insufficient amount of friction due to an overabundance of lubrication can induce a slippage of the strip leading to a stop of the mill. It is important to control the amount of friction in a secure way. The design of the controller was done through two main steps: Modeling and identification of the effect of lubrication on the friction coefficient, designing the friction control

This bachelor’s degree project aimed to improve the wheel profile of a rail mounted trolley and determine the cause of wheel failure. The proceedings of this project where modelled after an approach for solving wear problems with an emphasis on designing for sustainability. A case study and root cause analysis (RCA) was performed and the flanged wheels were deemed insufficient for the given heavy-haul system. Possible areas of wheel profile improvement were identified and further researched with multiple literature reviews. Throughout the projects duration several limitations were introduced that reduced the concept testing to exclusively theoretical prediction models. Archard’s model was implemented to predict wear and operating time for the proposed material and wheel tread profile concepts. The wheel flange dimensions were chosen based on recommendations from wheel and rail interference handbooks among other sources. The final wheel and rail profile suggestion improved operating time by approximately 300% and wear resistance by 50% compared to its predecessor. This result was achieved by applying the same theoretical prediction model to both current and suggested profiles. The findings of this project are meant to aid SCA among others in similar cases and additionally highlight the value of product improvement from a technological, sociological, and environmental perspective.

Aluminium silicon alloy has been found to be advantageous in many automobile components like pistons, cylinders, brakes and clutches. The main objective in using these alloys is to obtain lightweight and low friction at a reasonable cost without sacrificing reliability and durability. Out of all the tribological components piston skirts, piston rings and cylinder liners, have to face the most hostile of environments in an internal combustion engine. Wear mechanism of these components have been identified as abrasion, scuffing and corrosion. Narrowing down the line of interest, cylinder wear is more important than ring wear to both the engine manufacturer and the user, as cylinders are more expensive to replace than piston rings. Wear of piston ring and cylinder combination have been studied using a wide range of techniques. It is difficult to predict the tribological performance of these parts in an engine, even with the most well designed laboratory tests, due to chemical, thermal and mechanical complexities in the operating environment. Therefore, a good correlation is sought from the wear behaviour of test bed engines and laboratory tests. This should form the basis of further development particularly in terms of efficiency, weight eduction and wear life improvement of the components. Many ASTM bench-wear tests are used to study wear, some of the common tests being ball-on-disc and pin-on-disc testing. From these tests, a large database of wear information can be achieved and they offer rapid and low cost means of comparison. The only drawback is that the real components are not tested. However, since the bench tests can never simulate the engine environment completely, engine tests are always required for final verification. This thesis work reports preliminary studies of machining damage and wear in actual engine bore to set a bench mark, followed by a set of unidirectional sliding bench tests to study the wear of aluminium alloy under lubricated conditions, to classify the different wear regimes in boundary lubrication zone under different pressure conditions, and to study the effect of a surface modification technique, etching, which improves wear properties. The investigation is divided into four parts. 1. Study of subsurface damage in an actual cylinder surface as introduced by prior machining and actual worn case: A study of the microstructure of bores, processed through a range of machining variables; feed and speed, are investigated in this part of the thesis. This work suggests that the first step of rough machining may be responsible for the microstructure of the finished bore even though subsequent processing steps are intended to remove all prior damages. This also includes some observations of worn surface of an actually run engine, locating the various worn spots and studying the cause of this damage 2. Bench wear test in pin-on-disc under dry and lubricated condition with varying load and lubricant: After setting a benchmark on wear in engine using actual worn cylinder bore, a set of bench tests were carried out on aluminium alloy. Here, steel pins are slid on aluminium silicon alloy discs in the boundary lubrication regime in the presence of one drop of oil. The effect of pure hexadecane and engine oil containing additives on friction and wear are analysed and the data are discussed in terms of the formation of a mechanically mixed layer at the interface. 3. Ultra-mild Wear in Lubricated Tribology of an Aluminium Alloy: To study the different wear regimes in boundary lubrication zone, flat faces of cylindrical steel pins were slid on an eutectic aluminium silicon alloy under lubricated condition in the 1-100 MPa mean contact pressure range and 0.2 m/s sliding speed. Two transitions in wear rate were observed, at 10 MPa and 70 MPa. The wear rate in the 1-10 MPa regime was found to be very small and within the measuring instrument resolution and also insensitive to contact pressure. The regime is designated ultra-mild wear. Lack of plastic flow, minimal fragmentation of silicon particles and the presence of undistorted voids on the fractured and unfractured silicon particles in the subsurface suggest that the state of stress in the near surface region is elastic. Contact mechanical calculations demonstrate that at contact pressures less that 13.7 MPa the system is likely to shakedown to an elastic state. 4.Ball-on-disc wear tests for etched and unetched samples: In the fourth part of the thesis, comparative studies have been done between the as polished and chemically treated samples. Formation of grooves in a ball-on-disc experiment is observed on etched and unetched flats as a function of normal load and sliding distance. The groove is initially formed by plastic flow, and then expanded by micro-abrasion as the ball continues to slide on the groove. However etching causes surface hardening of the alloy, but, more importantly, creates a surface topology that reduces the peak contact pressure, which inhibits further plastic flow in the subsurface.

Deposition of nanoscale thickness films is ubiquitous in micro- and nano-scale device manufacturing. Current techniques such as spin-coating and chemical vapor deposition are designed to create only uniform thin films, and can be wasteful in material consumption. They lack the ability to adaptively prescribe desired film thickness profiles. This dissertation presents a novel inkjet-based zero-waste polymer deposition process referred to as Jet and Coat of Adaptive Sustainable Thin Films or J-CAST. The core of this process is built on an experimentally validated multi-scale fluid evolution model, based on extensions of lubrication theory. This model involves a nano-scale fluid film sandwiched between two flat plates: a compliant superstrate and a rigid substrate, with spatial topography on both surfaces. Accounting for the flexural elasticity of the compliant superstrate, and describing the temporal evolution of the fluid film in the presence of different boundary conditions reveals that instead of seeking process equilibrium, non-equilibrium transients should be exploited to guide film deposition. This forms the first core concept behind the process. This concept also enables robust full-wafer processes for creation of uniform films as well as nanoscale films with prescribed variation of thickness at mm-scale spatial wavelengths. The use of inkjets enables zero-waste adaptive material deposition with the preferred drop volumes and locations obtained from an inverse optimization formulation. This forms the second core concept behind the process. The optimization is based on the prescribed film thickness profile and typically involves >100,000 integer parameters. Using simplifying approximations for the same, three specific applications have been discussed - gradient surfaces in combinatorial materials science and research, elliptical profiles with ~10km radius of curvature for X-ray nanoscopy applications and polishing of starting wafer surfaces for mitigation of existing nanotopography. In addition, the potential of extending the demonstrated process to high throughput roll-roll systems has also been mentioned by modifying the model to incorporate the compliance of the substrate along with that of the superstrate. / text

Cette thèse est dédiée à l’étude des contacts lubrifiés tore-plan sous diverses conditions. Ces contacts se situent à l’interface entre l’extrémité torique des rouleaux et le collet de la bague dans les roulements à rouleaux. La première complexité de cette étude provient de la géométrie particulière des solides concernés. La deuxième est générée par la cinématique complexe qui règne dans ces contacts. Afin de comprendre les mécanismes physiques à l’œuvre, une approche duale (expérimentale et numérique) est adoptée. Le banc d’essai Jérotrib permet une première étude basée sur l’hypothèse que le contact élastohydrodynamique tore-plan est similaire à un contact elliptique équivalent. Grâce à une méthode d’interférométrie optique en lumière blanche qui a été adaptée aux spécificités du contact en question, des mesures précises de l’épaisseur de film ont été effectuées dans un nombre significatif de conditions. Sur cette base, un modèle numérique thermo-élastohydrodynamique a été validé avec précision. Ce dernier a permis d’étudier les écoulements de fluide à l’entrée du contact afin de mettre en évidence leur influence sur le champ d’épaisseur de film. Le modèle numérique a ensuite été amélioré afin de prendre en compte la vraie forme des solides. Il a été validé en épaisseur de film par le banc d’essai Tribogyr, dans des conditions similaires à celles rencontrées dans les vrais roulements. Il a été montré que le cisaillement du fluide est responsable de l’échauffement des solides, qui diminue par suite l’épaisseur de film : ceci souligne la nécessité de modéliser cet échauffement global pour prédire la séparation des surfaces. Par ailleurs, lors de l’étude, le champ de pression et d’épaisseur de film ont perdu leurs symétries à cause de la cinématique et de la forme des solides. Toutefois, le comportement du contact est resté similaire à celui d’un contact elliptique, en dehors de certains cas limites. / This thesis is dedicated to the study of torus on plane contacts under various operating conditions. They can be found at the interface between the torus roller-end and the flange in roller bearings. The first challenge of this thesis is to deal with unusual mating geometries. The other challenge is the presence of a complex kinematic which operates in these contacts. In order to further develop the understanding of such a contact, a dual approach (experimental and numerical) is adopted. The Jérotrib test-rig enables a first study, by considering that the élastohydrodynamic torus on plane contact can be modelled by an elliptical equivalent contact. Thanks to a differential colorimetric interferometry method which was improved and adapted during the thesis, precise film thickness measurements are carried out under a rather wide range of operating conditions. A thermo-elastohydrodynamic numerical model is developed and validated by comparing its results to the ones of the test-rig. A numerical study on film forming is then proposed and the role of the contact ellipticity is investigated. The numerical model is improved in order to take into account the actual shape of the solids. A film thickness validation of the model is proposed, thanks to measurements performed on the Tribogyr test-rig. The operating conditions are very similar to the one encountered in actual bearings, and the mating solids have representative geometries: it is an actual torus-on-plane contact. It is demonstrated that the lubricant shearing is responsible for the solids temperature rise, which in its turn, reduces the film thickness. It appears mandatory to be able to predict this global warming of the bodies. It is also demonstrated that the pressure and film thickness distributions lose their symmetry because of the spinning kinematic and the solids shape. However, the behaviour of the torus-on-plane contact appears very similar to the one of an elliptical equivalent contact, apart from some limit cases.

Title: Flows of incompressible fluids with pressure-dependent viscosity (and their application to modelling the flow in journal bearing) Author: Martin Lanzendörfer Department: Mathematical Institute of Charles University Supervisor: prof. RNDr. Josef Málek, DSc. Abstract: The viscosity of the fluids involved in hydrodynamic lubrication typically depends on pressure and shear rate. The thesis is concerned with steady isothermal flows of such fluds. Generalizing the recent results achieved in the case of homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions subject to the boundary conditions employed in practical applications will be established. The second part is concerned with numerical simulations of the lubrication flow. The experiments indicate that the presented finite element method is successful as long as certain restrictions on the constitutive model are met. Both the restrictions involved in the theoretical results and those indicated by the numerical experiments allow to accurately model real-world lubricants in certain ranges of pressures and shear rates. The last part quantifies those ranges for three representative lubricants. Keywords: existence and uniqueness of weak solutions, finite element method, pressure- thickening, shear-thinning, incompressible fluids,...