3—THE PERFORMANCE OF RING TRAVELLERS

Abstract
The heat and temperature developed on unlubricated travellers is examined theoretically and compared with some experimental results. The effects on traveller temperature of traveller speed, coefficient of friction, position on the traveller of point of contact between the ring and traveller, traveller hardness, heat-transfer coefficient between the traveller and air, and oxide films on the traveller or ring, or both, are studied. A qualitative explanation offered for the rise in traveller temperature associated with traveller vibration, the so-called ‘chatter’, is that the movement of a hot spot on the traveller increases the traveller's share of the total frictional heat.

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