A method for evaluating anti-wear lubricant effects

A method is described for estimating the protective (anti-wear) capability of liquid surface-active and inactive media used as lubricating-cooling technological fluids for ‘sparing’ treatment of single crystal surfaces and also for precision mechanical equipment with friction bearings containing single crystals. The method permits the quantitative evaluation of the efficiency of the protective (anti-wear) action of different media based on statistical characteristics of the elasticity-plasticity transition in the subsurface layer of tribopair materials in moving contact.