Chinese Internal Combustion Engine Engineering, Volume. 46, Issue 4, 1(2025)

Profile Optimization of Floating Piston Pin Friction Pairs of a Marine Diesel Engine

SUN Xiyu1, FU Yan1, GAO Lining1, WU Limin2, ZHANG Meng1, and CUI Yi1,3、*
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  • 1Institute of Advanced Energy and Powertrain Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 2Shanghai Marine Diesel Engine Research Institute, Shanghai 201108, China
  • 3Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Ship and Deep-Sea Exploration, Shanghai 200240, China
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    To reduce the wear of the full-floating piston pin friction pair in a certain high-power marine diesel engine, a polynomial profile expression method with continuous curvature at the segment was proposed, and the profile of the pin hole was optimized. A sub-model for the contact area between the pin and pin hole was established based on the thermo-mechanical coupling model of the piston pin friction pair for pin hole profile optimization, which can improve computational efficiency by 120 times. A high-order curve was designed based on the foundation of the previous job to replace the original conical profile. The pin hole profile was optimized using the sub-model and a Python-driven automatic surface design method, resulting in a 12.7% reduction in the maximum stress of the pin hole. A thermo-elastic hydrodynamic lubrication model for the piston-pin-connecting rod was constructed to compare the lubrication and wear performance before and after the pin hole profile optimization. The effectiveness of the profile optimization was verified through a single-cylinder engine test.

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    SUN Xiyu, FU Yan, GAO Lining, WU Limin, ZHANG Meng, CUI Yi. Profile Optimization of Floating Piston Pin Friction Pairs of a Marine Diesel Engine[J]. Chinese Internal Combustion Engine Engineering, 2025, 46(4): 1

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    Paper Information

    Received: Sep. 28, 2024

    Accepted: Aug. 22, 2025

    Published Online: Aug. 22, 2025

    The Author Email: CUI Yi (ycui@sjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.13949/j.cnki.nrjgc.2025.04.001

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