Experimental Investigation of the Performance of SBR and RSS Materials as a Sliding Bearing Element

Conventional bearing systems and materials, which are important components of machine elements, have often failed to fulfil requirements, especially in places where sealing is required. In such cases, sliding bearings with PTFE- NBR-based polymer elastomer materials operating water or oil preferred. this study, the performance two alternative rubber-based synthetic styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) natural smoked sheet (RSS), as a was experimentally investigated terms frictional resistance using pin-on-disc pin-on-cylinder devices. very low friction forces emerged at speeds compared PTFE NR water. The force values coefficients obtained presented diagrams tables.