Remarks on modeling the flexible seal ring housing

When formulating models of dynamic face seals, two issues are of essential importance. The first concerns the determination of the forces formed in the medium film in the gap formed by the faces of two rings, while the second refers to the model of the flexible housing of one of the seal rings. The first issue includes the analysis of the medium flow through a narrow slit, taking thermal phenomena and deformations of slit-forming surfaces into account. The second issue concerns the modeling of properties of seal structural components, especially the modeling of elastic-damping properties of the flexible seal ring housing. This paper presents the results of simple relaxation tests of elastomeric rings and the procedure for analyzing these results and evaluating the elastic-damping properties of the rings tested. Finally, experimental results will be compared with theory.