Experimental Investigation on Effect of Grinding Direction on Wear Under Heavy Load and Slow Speed Conditions with Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS₂) as Additive in Commercial Lubricant

In the present work, experimental investigation has been carried out to identify the effect of grinding direction on the wear of the sliding surfaces subjected to heavy load and low sliding velocity with molybdenum disulphide MoS2 as additive in commercial lubricant. The conformal block and disk test setup has been used to conduct experiments on conformal blocks with two grinding directions: one along the direction of sliding and other across the direction of sliding. The wear of the block is measured as its weight loss after the test. The results of the experiments are reported.