Colorimetric interferomentry has been applied to the study of EHD lubrication of point contacts under pure rolling conditions to obtain lubricant film shapes with high accuracy and resolution. An RGB CCD camera together with an extensive image processing software has enabled real time evaluation of chromatic interferograms. The classical numerical isothermal solution of EHD lubrication of point contacts has been used for the comparison with three-dimensional representations of film thickness distributions obtained from experiments. A good agreement was found between experimental and numerical EHD film shapes by comparing lubricant film profiles and positions of minimum film thickness. Both experimental results and numerical solution confirm the ratio between central and minimum film thickness to change significantly with operating conditions. [S0742-4787(00)00404-5]
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