Hydraulics is indispensable in everyday life because of its ability to work with large forces.
Hydraulic cylinders are an important hydraulic element and contain different types of seals.
Friction, leakage and wear are therefore present at the seals. This thesis presents an
investigation of the influence of different shapes and materials of piston seals in a hydraulic
cylinder on the friction force. The friction was tested in two hydraulic fluids, water and
mineral oil, at six different piston rod extrusion speeds on a test rig prepared for this purpose.
It was found that the proportion of the friction force in mineral oil is between 60 % and 85
% of the friction force generated by the same piston seal in water. For one type of seal, we
have experimentally demonstrated that increasing the groove diameter by 0.5 mm increases
the friction force in both hydraulic fluids by between 25 % and 40 %. However, a long-term
test carried out on a pre-built test rig provided data on the leakage of the piston seal before
the start of the long-term test, after 50 km of travel, and after 100 km of travel of the piston
rod at full load.
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