REVIEW ARTICLE


The Effect of Relative Humidity and Roughness on the Friction Coefficient under Horizontal Vibration



Mohammad Asaduzzaman Chowdhury*, 1, Maksud Helali2
1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology, Gazipur, Gazipur-1700, Bangladesh
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2008
Volume: 2
First Page: 128
Last Page: 135
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-2-128
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X00802010128

Article History:

Received Date: 07/07/2008
Revision Received Date: 19/09/2008
Acceptance Date: 04/10/2008
Electronic publication date: 18/11/2008
Collection year: 2008

© 2008 Chowdhury and Helali

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* Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology, Gazipur, Gazipur-1700, Bangladesh; Tel: 880-2-9204734-43, Ext. 435; Fax: 880-2-9204701-02; E-mail: asadzmn2003@yahoo.com


Abstract

The present paper investigates experimentally the effect of relative humidity and roughness on friction property of mild steel under horizontal vibration. To do so, a pin-on-disc apparatus having facility of vibrating the test samples at different direction is designed and fabricated. The direction of vibration is horizontal. Horizontal vibration is created along (longitudinal direction) and perpendicular (transverse direction) to the sliding direction. The experimental setup has the facility to vary the amplitudes and frequencies of vibration while velocity of vibration is kept constant. During the experiment, relative humidity, roughness, frequency, amplitude and direction of vibration are varied. The observed ranges of relative humidity and surface roughness were 40%-80% and 0.125-2.5μm (RMS) respectively. Results show that friction co-efficient decreases with the increase of relative humidity for horizontal vibration. Friction coefficient is very high at very low roughness and it tends to be high at very high roughness for horizontal direction. It is also observed that the variation of friction co-efficient has a particular relationship with the relative humidity and roughness under horizontal vibration.

Keywords: Friction coefficient, horizontal vibration, relative humidity, roughness.