Combustion Engine Cylinder Liners Made of Al-Si Alloys

Cylinder pressure and combustion heat release estimation for SI engine diagnostics using nonlinear sliding observers

AbstructCylinder pressure is an important parameter in engine combustion analysis or engine diagnosis. An approach is introduced to estimate cylinder pressure and combustion heat release in multicylinder SI engines based solely on engine speed measurements. Because of the nonlinear nature of engines, this estimation employs a nonlinear observer: the Sliding Observer. In many applications, cylin...

TOPOGRAPHY CHARACTERIZATION OF ENGINEERING SURFACES USING MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY Application to the characterization of wear in internal combustion engine cylinder liners

A state of the art of 3D surface characterization techniques in the automotive and steel industries is presented, and links with mathematical morphology are highlighted. A surface topography decomposition method is described. It decomposes a surface into three elements: reference surface (waviness and form), superficial roughness (related to friction and wear) and valleys (related to lubricant ...

Precipitation Hardening of Al–Si–Mg Alloys

Cylinder Pressures and Vibration in Internal Combustion Engine Condition Monitoring

Abstract: We focus on the detection of incipient faults in an internal combustion engine using a minimum number of sensory information. Inducing several faults in a 4 stroke diesel engine, cylinder pressure (P) and vibration (V) data are acquired. Two sets of artificial neural nets (ANN) are trained separately, using features from the pressure and vibration data. Both sets of nets show very goo...

Revealing heterogeneous nucleation of primary Si and eutectic Si by AlP in hypereutectic Al-Si alloys.

The heterogeneous nucleation of primary Si and eutectic Si can be attributed to the presence of AlP. Although P, in the form of AlP particles, is usually observed in the centre of primary Si, there is still a lack of detailed investigations on the distribution of P within primary Si and eutectic Si in hypereutectic Al-Si alloys at the atomic scale. Here, we report an atomic-scale experimental i...