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Introducing a New Piston Skirt Profile to Reduce Engine Friction
Technical Paper
2016-01-1046
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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The piston’s skirt shape is a key design parameter since it critically influences lateral displacement, tilting movement, oil transport and consequently engine performances. This study proposes an alternative skirt profile that aims to reduce frictional losses between the piston and cylinder liner. Qualitatively, the proposed profile, aims to reduce solid-to-solid contact friction by increasing the total hydrodynamic forces generated on the skirt to balance side forces, and to prevent both sides of the skirt to interact with the liner simultaneously. The new skirt’s profile has been first studied and optimized using a piston secondary motion model and then prototyped and tested on a floating liner test bench, showing a 12% average reduction in total piston FMEP.
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Totaro, P., Westerfield, Z., and Tian, T., "Introducing a New Piston Skirt Profile to Reduce Engine Friction," SAE Technical Paper 2016-01-1046, 2016, https://doi.org/10.4271/2016-01-1046.Also In
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