The laws that govern the durability of crankshaft-piston assembly friction nodes can be proved or at least derived or justified in an intuitive way. Operation of all the friction nodes is disturbed by external factors occurring with randomly changing intensity and also appearing at random. As the crankshaft-piston assembly friction nodes have a series structure and effects of those disturbances accumulate, their fitness for use...

The paper presents a failure model of main elements of the crankshaft-piston assembly, based on failures ofcrankshaft-piston assembly and timing gear system of the Sulzer RD engines, retrieved from the equipment reliabilitydata of selected ships.

Przedstawiono propozycję wartościowania (ilościowego określenia) działania dowolnego układu korbowo-tłokowego silnika o zapłonie samoczynnym, w którym zachodzą oddziaływania energetyczne w określonym czasie. Działanie to rozumiane jest jako przekazywanie odbiornikowi energii w ustalonym czasie, w którym zachodzi przetwarzanie i przenoszenie energii w formie pracy i ciepła. Wartościowanie działania układów korbowo-tłokowych silników...

The paper presents a topological model allowing to determine the probability of aptitude of the diagnosing system (SDG) individual measuring circuits and also to determine to what degree they influence the assessment of the technical condition of an arbitrary main subassembly of crankshaft-piston assemblies as a diagnosed system (SDN).

In the article the risk criterion for sea-going ships arising from the operation of the main engines' crankshaft - connecting rod - piston systems is proposed. These criterion is based on the procedures recommended in the Formal Safety Assessment method developed under the auspices of International Maritime Organization (IMO). First of all the collective risk criterion for ship has been proposed. In the next step, the share of...