Behavioural Modelling of Lips Seal Made with Polytetrafluoroethylene Enriched by Glass Fibers.docVIP

Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Material Science, 2013, 3, 170-174 /10.4236/mnsms.2013.34024 Published Online October 2013 (/journal/mnsms) Behavioural Modelling of Lips Seal Made with Polytetrafluoroethylene Enriched by Glass Fibers Ali Djeffal , Seif Eddine Bendaoudi , Mokhtar Bounazef , El Abbas Adda Bedia 1 1 1* 2 Materials and Hydrology Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Djillali Liabes University, Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria Materials and Hydrology Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, Djillali Liabes University, Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria Email: bounazef@ * 1 2 Received August 20, 2013; revised September 24, 2013; accepted October 12, 2013 Copyright ? 2013 Ali Djeffal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT Polytetrafluoroethylene reinforced with glass fibers is a composite material widely used in industry mainly for the manufacture of seals at the level of the rotary shafts of vehicles and stationary floor machines such as turbines and com- pressors. However, due to elastic and viscous-plastic properties of this material, it wears quickly under the influence of some external parameters during operation. There is therefore material loss, increased clearance and loss of sealing. This work summarises a series of tests carried out with this material in order to analyse the variation of the friction coeffi- cient due to the roughness of the work piece brought into contact with the PTFE, the linear velocity of contact between them and material yield strength. To do this analysis, we used the method of unconventional design of experiments to