Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Tribology and Engineering Systems (eBook)

Dr. Himanshu C. Patel is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, India. He has been teaching for 13 years and has over 10 years of research experience. He has published several research papers in various international journals. He has also participated in several international conferences, including the ASME/STLE conference in 2012 at Denver, Colorado. He is Advisor – Research and Development in Science and Humanities, Gujarat Technological University. Dr. Gunamani Deheri is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidhyanagar, Gujarat, India. He has 27 years of teaching/research experience. His research interests include tribology and functional analysis. He has over 100 research papers to his credit in various international journals. He has won the Hariom Ashram Award for the best research paper five times. He is also the winner of the Balkanji Bari Science Trust Award and the Excellence in Research Award, Saurashtra University. Dr. H.S. Patel is Professor of Applied Mechanics at Government Engineering College, Patan, Gujarat, India. His areas of expertise include structural engineering, tsunami engineering and advanced computing in structural engineering. He has published more than 40 papers in international and national journals and three books in area of structural engineering. He has over 28 years of teaching experience and has conducted several training programs on computer aided design.Dr. Shreya M. Mehta is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. She holds a doctorate from S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat. She has been teaching for over 16 years. She has published several research papers at both the national and the international level. She had guided several students in their dissertation work.

Effect of Bearing Deformation on the Performance of a Magnetic Fluid Based Infinitely Rough Short Porous Journal Bearing.- Effects of Velocity-slip and Viscosity Variation in Squeeze film lubrication of Spherical Bearings.- Magnetic Fluid Based Squeeze Film between Rotating Curved Rough Circular Plates.- Performance of a Magnetic Fluid Based Squeeze Film between Infinitely Long Rough Porous Rectangular Plates.- Power Law Fluid Film Lubrication of Journal Bearing with Squeezing and Temperature Effects.- Rough Porous Circular Convex Pad Slider Bearing Lubricated with a Magnetic Fluid.- Slip Velocity and Roughness Effect on Magnetic Fluid Based Infinitely Long Bearings.- Squeeze Film Performance in Parallel Rough Circular Disks Lubricated by Ferrofluid with Non-Newtonian Couple Stress Effect.- The Performance Analysis of a Magnetic Fluid Based Hydrodynamic Long Journal Bearing.- Thermo Hydrodynamic Lubrication Characteristics of Power Law Fluids in Rolling/Sliding Line Contact.- Transient Analysis of Plain Circular Bearing with Micropolar Fluid.- Effect of Cryogenic Treatment on Hardness, Microstructure and Wear Behavior of Hot Die Steel Grade AISI-H13.- Experimental Study to Measure Piston Ring Assembly Friction of Multi-cylinder I.C. Engine (S.I.) on Motorized Engine Test Rig – A Case Study.- Influence of Surfactant in Hexaferrites as Wear Resistance.- Investigations of Friction and Wear in Pultruded Glass Fibre Epoxy Composites.- Morphology and Friction Characterization of CVD Grown Graphene on Polycrystalline Nickel.- Optimization of Reciprocating Friction - Wear Test Rig Operating Parameters for Segmented Piston Ring - Liner Assembly.- Strengthening Fiber-Matrix Adhesion to Improve Tribo-Performance of Composites.- Ferrofluid Lubrication of Squeeze Film in Curved Circular Plates with Assorted Porous Structures.- Lubrication for Microsystems.- Study on the Effect of Blend Oil with Based Oil Analysis.- Tribological Testing of Electrolyzed 17- 4 PH Steel against SS 440 C under Water Lubricated Condition.- Design & Development of Rotary Fixture for CNC with Tribology Considerations of Mechanics Analysis and Dynamic Balancing as Pre-mortem Tool.- Design and Kinematic Analysis of an Automatic Tool Changing Mechanism used in VMC.- Effect of Elliptical Shaft Geometry on Non-dimensional Pressure and Load in Hydrodynamic Journal Bearings.- Effect of Localized Defect on the Vibration Behavior of Cylindrical Roller Bearing-Rotor System.- Experimental Investigation on Life Cycle Analysis of the Moly (Mo) Coated Piston Ring in C. I. Engine.- Load Capacity Analysis of Gas Foil Bearing (GFB) for Different Foil Materials.- Nonlinear Dynamic Behavior of balanced rotor bearing System due to various Localized Defects.- Performance of a Magnetic Fluid Based Longitudinally Rough Short Bearing.- Prediction of Useful Life of Rolling Contact Bearings Using Monte-Carlo Simulation Technique.- Side Edge Effect on Elastic Contact Stress and Deformation.- Smart Journal Bearing Using Giant Magnetostrictive Actuators.- Experimental Evaluation of the Tribological Properties of CuO Nano-lubricants at Elevated Temperatures.- On using Nanoporous Alumina Films as Tribological Coating.- Solid Particle Erosion of Luffa Cylindrical Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite.- Synthesis and Micro-structural Characterization of CrAlN Coatings by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering.- Tribology Characteristics of Cold Rolled Spray Cast Al- 6Si-20Pb Alloy.- An Innovative Approximate Method for Analysis of Continuous Beam.- Seismic Response of RC Elevated Water Tank Considering Site Specific Acceleration Time History.- Soil-foundation-structure Interaction Effects in Seismic Behaviour of RC Elevated Water Tank.- Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of High Speed Unbalanced Rotor Supported on Deep Groove Ball Bearings Considering the Preload Effect.- Temperature Distribution in Living Tissue with Fractional Bioheat Model in Thermal Therapy.