TY - JOUR AU - Persson, Bo TI - Fluid Leakage in Static Rubber Seals JO - Tribology letters VL - 70 IS - 2 SN - 1023-8883 CY - Dordrecht PB - Springer Science Business Media B.V. M1 - FZJ-2022-03863 SP - 31 PY - 2022 AB - Interfacial surface roughness can result in fluid leakage of seals, and in the design of seals it is standard to give an upper limit for the surface root-mean-square (rms) roughness amplitude hrms. However, hrms is determined mainly by the long-wavelength roughness, which is (nearly) irrelevant for the sealing. I discuss the parameters which determine the leakage of seals, and present results for static rubber seals with circular cross-section (like rubber O-rings). I also study the influence of the fluid pressure on the interfacial surface separation and the leakrate. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000757344900001 DO - DOI:10.1007/s11249-022-01573-8 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/910480 ER -