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June 2017, Cairo, Egypt, MECH- GDP-13

Design and manufacturing of pin on disc machine

Supervisor: Major. General. Eng/ Sayed Akl
Amr Ahmed Mohamed (116719)
Mohamed Alaa Mabrouk(115515)
Abanoub Magdy Yacoub (116797)
Hossam Ahmed Antar (116720)
Faculty of Engineering, Mechanical Department, The British University in Egypt, El Sherouk
City, Misr-Ismalia Road, Cairo, Egypt
Emails: mohamed115515@bue.edu.eg

Definition of Design Problem: Nowadays, friction and wear are very important factors which take into
consideration by any designer in manufacturing any product. As, they has an impact on the performance, safety
and overall efficiently of the products. The product/material with the best tribological properties is that with low
wear and friction.
Summary of Previous Designs: N.Marjanovic et al, they explained the changes for the design of the
tribometer machine that measures the wear rate of the materials. They modified it when they found that the
convention or the simple wear test machine cannot provide precise readings and they claimed that this test can
perform more and provide more results at different levels such as variable velocities and variable loads so to
give accurate results for some specific applications that uses sever loading methods and very high speeds which
affects the wear rate of some machine parts such as the bearings or shafts.(Dougles Godfrey, 1995)
Scope and Objectives: The objective of the project is to design an applicable and easy to use machine
to give a sensible result for measuring the tribological properties of any material used; these properties of
concerned are the coefficient of friction and the wear rate under variable conditions which are.

1. A wide variety of velocities

2. Wide variety of loads
3. Different materials to be make a sensible comparison of the wear rate.

Conceptual Design and Required Features (If Applicable): Model 1:

Figure 1: first model

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Rejection reason:
Due to the orientation of the machine the wiring system is really hard also the
lubrication system will be complicated due to the distance the fluid needs to travel in
order to hit the disc which may arise lots of problems affecting the results of the
experiment especially if you're working with viscous fluid. (D.K.Aggarwal and
P.C.Sharma, 2006)
Model 2:

Figure 2: second model

Rejection reason:
This model have solved the problem of the wiring but the major problem is that the
pin is not hundred percent contacting with the surface of disc also it is impossible to
set up a lubrication system to hit the disc perpendicularly
And it is hard to contain the flow of the viscous fluid.(Charles.R Mischke and Joseph
Edward Shigley , 2001)

Model 3:

Figure 3: model three

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This model sold both problems and the casing is pretty securing it so there's no
leakage of oil (no losses). And stability is high the pin is hundred percent contacting
with the disk with a proper window view to check the process and with an external
supply to compensate for the loss of oil easily no need to disassemble the
machine.(M.Ramaswamy, 2003)
Figure 12 and 13 are isometric drawing for the concept designed machine.

Motor

Arm

Figure 4: pin on disc choosed concept

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Disc
made
of
steel

Acrylic
Specimen Lubrication
holder system oil

Figure 5: pin on disc machine

1. Methodology: Design of experiment method was used by developing two a model to determine the
interdependent relationship among factors affecting a process and the output of that
process, .. Each of these factors has two levels with centre points between them. After
building the design, the experiment runs are recorded and analyzed. By

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using this method, it was possible to study the effect of main and mixed (interaction) independent variables
on the coefficient of friction . ..

Fig.5.1. Pin-on-disc type small-scale tribo-tester. Fig.5,2. Pin-on-disc type small-scale tribo-tester
Main Results: For this chapter of the report, it is discussing the method of testing the
machines that was designed for the purpose of wear or material loss (Tribological properties). This
machine is tested for its operation and the result for this test is the wear particles lost from the
material.
Identifying the factors that are contributing and affecting the material loss is a must to know the results
what are they representing. First result that is needed that the machine is performing according to the
design which the disk is rotating and the pin is perpendicular to the rotating disk to create the wear
that needs to be tested, this is the first result that is needed to be conducted.
Second factor to be considered is the speed of the rotating disk because the speed of the rotation
increased the wear rate so for this experiment frequency modulator is used because it is much
cheaper than the gearbox. More compact in design and less complex in running the experiment and
most of all more accurate than the gear box.
Thirdly, other factor that affects the experiment is the temperature so to get the reading of the
temperature by thermal infrared equipment. This affect the amount of weight loss that happen to the
material
Finally, the factor that is responsible for the wear is the friction force which measured by the strain
gauge in newton
So to summarize the concept that was designed for contributing this experiment is
Determine:
the needed speed (1450 rpm) by frequency modulator
the tangential force needed is measured automatically by strain gauge
temperature is measured by infrared
weight loss measured by a sensitive balance

This experiment is designed to measure the weight loss after 20 working hours/ day.

After measuring 15 samples of by using oil showed the following

Sample Weight Weight loss Weight after Temperature Friction
number before force
1 25.54 0.22 25.32 34 12.927
2 25.32 0.26 25.06 35 12.567
3 25.06 0.23 24.83 34 13.285
4 24.83 0.24 24.59 37 13.628
5 24.59 0.31 24.28 39 12.961
6 24.28 0.28 24 33 12.327
7 24 0.19 23.81 32 13.241
8 23.81 0.2 23.61 35 14.874
9 23.61 0.3 23.31 38 13.735

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10 23.31 0.16 23.15 36 12.137

11 23.15 0.21 22.94 32 14.219
12 22.94 0.33 22.61 36 14.891
13 22.61 0.25 22.36 31 12.962
14 22.36 0.32 22.04 30 13.129
15 22.04 0.26 21.78 39 13.513
Table 1: result of the experimenta work
The table shows the results obtained from the experiment form the 15 samples that show variation in
all the factors stated above.

Figure 6: temp vs sample graph

This temperature raises variation during the experiments because friction impacts by temperature rise
during working.

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Figure 7: wright loss vs sample graph

This graph shows the variety of wear that happened to the aluminum pins this variety is because the
wear is not constant because the aluminum particles that were mixed with the oil gives different
readings as these particles acts as a third body attacking the pin which may increases the material
loss during the experiment and also temperature may affect the amount of material loss.

Figure 8: friction force vs sample graph

This graph shows a variation of the frictional force during the experiment and since the pin material
particles fused with the oil is dispersed randomly so this creates a variation in the force created on the
pin then by the frictional force is also affected this creates the random variation of the frictional force
as it is shown in the graph above

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2. Main Achievements in the New Design

Friction force and weight loss of the material is much less in oil than dry atmosphere.
Another achievement is using the oil base fluid which was not used before
Also the increase in the pressure applied was concluded to increase the friction force and the removal
of material and that happens because the actual contact area at the interface increases with increasing
the pressure at that surface, so the friction increase due to the growth of the area and the wear increase
due to the formation debris and fragments that act as three body abrasive elements.
3. Recommendation for Further Enhancement:

For this design the future development a computer system will be added to achieve more accurate results to give
more readings to reduce the gap between reading to predict the amount of wear during the machine operation
Temperature sensor to make sure that the oil does not exceed a certain temperature to avoid oil vaporization to
reduce the cost of oil refilling
Oil sump volume sensor this sensor is responsible for keeping the oil level monitored to make sure the level of
the oil the same during the whole procedure
Cooling system or heat exchanger to hold the oil temperature so the oil amount last longer during the
experiment
Mobile application to monitor the whole experiment remotely for better following on the experiment process at
any time and to control the activation and stoppings of the machine remotely at any time. To avoid any failures

4. Conclusion

To sum the entire procedure of designing the machine and the results. The machine was first needed to achieve
the goal of being able to identify and predict the amount of wear a weight loss of the material used and to
simulate the wear as it happen inside the engine parts.
In addition to, the design of the machine parts were perfectly selected to achieve the cohesive needed between
parts. For example pumping power for oil with the size of pump was perfectly selected to fit the machine needs
for this application
The machine results from the weight loss measurement showed the lubricant are effective in preventing material
loss as it forms a layer upon the material called (Fluid Film) that decreases wear and keeps the materials much
more life time and more service time which reduces the cost for replacing parts

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