The piston skirt and pin account for about 17 percent of the frictional loss in a combustion engine as they are the most difficult to keep lubricated and have the largest contact surfaces. OE ...

Friction is enemy No. 1 for powertrain engineers striving to meet rising fuel-economy standards. "As engines get smaller, eliminating friction becomes even more important," says Dave Lancaster, a ...

One of the many challenges facing engine designers is the need to increase power output while simultaneously retaining or improving efficiency. Although a four-cylinder engine is still an engineering ...

CARSON, CA, UNITED STATES, August 7, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- IPD (Industrial Parts Depot, LLC), a global leader in heavy-duty engine parts, proudly announces the ...

Solid lubricants such as graphite and carbon fibre reinforced polymer form the EcoTough coating for diesel engine pistons to reduce friction, and improve efficiency, refinement and durability of ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 96, Section 7: FUELS AND LUBRICANTS (1987), pp. 240-257 (18 pages) Extensive measurements of oil film temperature and mainly of friction losses have been performed on an ...

Hannover, Germany, September 23, 2014- Federal-Mogul Powertrain, a division of Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation (FDML) has significantly reduced the friction of heavy-duty diesel piston rings by a ...

ABSTRACT To explore the measures that can be used to improve the fuel economy of internal combustion engines, we investigated how friction at the piston ring-cylinder liner interface is influenced by ...

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Pistons are an engine-building element we like to brag about, but you won't catch many of us boasting about having cast pistons. Cast pistons are for wimps. Many of us like to talk up hypereutectic ...

Friction is the enemy of speed. Whether it's rolling resistance or the wind flowing over the body at speed, racers work tirelessly to dispense it. The concept of friction may seem like an entirely ...

If asked what you wanted for piston rings in your engine build, would you know how to answer? Piston rings have the most important job in your engine. We will get arguments on this one because there ...