Wouter Ost

Influence of electrical discharge machining on the reciprocating sliding wear response of WC-Co cemented carbides (2009)

Bonny, Koenraad, De Baets, Patrick, Ost, Wouter, Vleugels, Jozef, Huang, S, Lauwers, Bert, ...

A number of commercially available WC-Co-based cemented carbides with 6 up to 12 wt.% Co were machined and surface finished by grinding as well as by wire electrical discharge machining (EDM) in...

Test setup for friction force measurements of large-scale composite bearings (2009)

Van Wittenberghe, Jeroen, Ost, Wouter, Rezaei, Ali, De Baets, Patrick, Zsidai, Laszlo, Kalácska, Gabor

Composite materials are increasingly applied as journal bearings. Due to their low coefficient of friction, polymeric composites are very efficient where lubrication is difficult or impossible. At...

Tribotesting of large-scale specimens : the necessity of proper design (2009)

Ost, Wouter, De Baets, Patrick, Van Autrève, Stijn, Van Wittenberghe, Jeroen, Zsidai, László, Kalácska, Gábor

Tribological tests have always been difficult and expensive to run, as the tests should as closely as possible mimic the application (Czichos, 1982). This has a number of implications: the tests...

Experimental investigation of the friction behaviour of engineering plastics on a rotating pin-on-disc type tribotester (2009)

Van Autrève, Stijn, Ost, Wouter, De Baets, Patrick, Loccufier, Mia

Enginseering plastics are increasingly used as bearing materials in applications demanding high contact loads and low sliding velocities. In these circumstances low and stable friction behaviour is...