A material property which is often used in the comparison and selection of
polymer based materials used for dry rubbing journal bearings is the limiti
ng pressure-velocity (LPV) value. In this paper the thermal network method
(TNM) is used to model an LPV test-rig and the results of this model are ve
rified with some experiments. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights res
erved.