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Geometry of the slot between piston bearing surface and cylinder bore affects the friction losses of the IC engine to the far extent. It appears that these losses depend more on the area covered with oil than the thickness of oil layer separating collaborating parts. Barrel-shaped or stepwise piston bearing surface is the way to reduce the oil-covered area. The first concept has been used for years while the stepwise profile has not been applied for various reasons, although this idea providing higher load capacity of oil layer in stepwise slot was published in literature in the fifties of twentieth century. The stepwise profile can be obtained covering the cylindrical or tapered piston-bearing surface with a thin layer graphite. This paper presents the results of simulation leading to the reduction in friction losses and abrasive wear of piston bearing surface and cylinder bore. Covering the piston bearing surface with a thin layer of graphite one can get an extremely advantageous tribological properties of the piston assembly which means the expected parameters of oil film and in a case of film rupture-an ignorable abrasive wear of the graphite layer and/or cylinder bore.

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The article describes the results of simulations of the approved variations of sliding surfaces of ring seals in relation to a reference symmetrical barrel profile which is most often used in piston internal combustion engines. In particular the paper discusses the impact of the five assumed variants of sliding profiles of ring seals onto the thickness of oil film left on the cylinder face by a bottom and upper ring seal, the distribution of internal friction force in oil film between the ring seal set and the cylinder face, finally the oil film cover on a sliding surface of the upper ring seal. The results presented in the article show a close relationship between the sliding surface profile of ring seals and a unit oil consumption. A relationship between these parameters for the elements lying in the movement plane of a wrist pin axis was proven, as well as for the one lying in the plane perpendicular to it. Exemplary parameters of oil film and friction losses were presented while assuming a constant total axial values of the height and depth of circumferential grooves. The shapes of these grooves on the sliding surface of the ring seals in free state can be made with electroerosion microprocessing or ablative laser microprocessing.

The results resistance of loss motion diesel engine for different temperatures of lubricating oil is presented in the paper. Tests were performed to evaluate the effect of lubricating oil temperature of friction losses in engine. In addition to friction losses in the bearings of the crankshaft and a group of piston ringspistoncylinder, the friction loss due to charge exchange in the cylinder drive system and oil pump were measured also. The research results shows the progress resistance of loss motion engine.