Meicke, Stephen; Paasch, Robert - In: Renewable Energy 39 (2012) 1, pp. 463-470
This study investigates the wear characteristics of polymeric journal bearings while immersed in seawater, and their … applicability towards wave energy conversion. A block on ring wear machine was used to test four commercially available bearing … materials under unidirectional and oscillatory sliding conditions at low pressure. It was observed that wear generally increases …