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The phenomenon of fluid film lubrication was recognized in the 1880’s through the pioneering experimental work of Petrov (1883) and Tower (1883) and the classical development of the hydrodynamic theory of lubrication by Osborne Reynolds (1886). Petrov carried out an extensive study of friction in railway waggon axle boxes in the workshops of the St. Petersburg-Varsovie Railway and concluded that mediate friction was dependent upon the viscosity and not the density of the lubricant. He measured the friction torque acting on such bearings and found that it was determined by the shearing of a thin film of lubricant contained between a concentric journal and bearing. He also concluded that there was no slip between the lubricant and the bounding solids and this enabled him to write the following expression for the coefficient of friction in a full journal bearing.
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Dowson, D. (1992). Friction and Traction in Lubricated Contacts. In: Singer, I.L., Pollock, H.M. (eds) Fundamentals of Friction: Macroscopic and Microscopic Processes. NATO ASI Series, vol 220. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2811-7_18
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