Erratum to: Operating behavior and performance of oil-lubricated plastic gears

Erratum to:

Forsch Ingenieurwes 2021

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10010-021-00513-7

The unreinforced plastic gear indicates a minimum lubricant film thickness h_min = 0.39 µm and a specific lubricant film thickness of λ = 1.6 for the herein investigated operating conditions. The fiber reinforced variant, however, exhibits a minimum lubricant film thickness h_min = 0.28 µm and a specific lubricant film thickness of λ = 0.6. Due to the higher roughness and the resulting low specific lubricant film thickness, the carbon fiber reinforced test gears may be more sensitive to wear in operation than the non-reinforced variants of lower roughness.

The original article has been corrected.