LBS: Your experts in Design of Machine Elements and the second largest Engineering Analysis and Consulting Firm in the U.S. Expertise in product development, developing and commercializing maintenance-free, solid-lubricated, steel and ceramic bearing hardware; assisting plants in the solution of bearing and lubrication problems; providing failure analysis and expert witness services

Resume of Lewis B. Sibley

EXPERTISE AND SERVICES
Developing and commercializing maintenance-free, solid-lubricated, steel and ceramic bearing hardware. Assisting plants in the solution of bearing and lubrication problems. Providing failure analysis and expert witness services.
PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Aerospace, Automotive, Metals, Mining, Oil and Gas, Paper, Utilities.
FACILITIES INCLUDE
Chemical Testing Laboratories, Computer Modeling Facilities, Machine Shop, Metallurgical Testing Laboratories, Physical Testing Laboratories, Technical Research Library.
EDUCATION
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1953.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
President of tribology consulting firm, 1989-present.
Manager of Research, SKF Technology Services, Inc., Division of SKF Industries, 1961-1982.
Project Leader, Battelle Memorial Institute, 505 King Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201 (1953-1961).
HONORS AND AWARDS
Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Elected Fellow of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers.
Awarded Hunt Medal, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers.
BACKGROUND
Mr. Sibley formed his tribology consulting firm in 1989 as a component of his private consulting practice to concentrate on the development and commercialization of maintenance-free, solid-lubricated, steel and ceramic bearing hardware. The technology base for his company is Mr. Sibley's nearly forty years of R&D experience in steel and ceramic bearings, a current USAF-funded research program, and three current projects for solid-lubricated steel and ceramic bearings for industrial applications.
Mr. Sibley has developed unique and proprietary solid-lubricated steel and ceramic bearings for critical applications such as nuclear reactors and turbomachinery. Solid-lubricated bearings withstand extreme temperatures and loads not possible with conventional oil and grease lubricated bearings. Mr. Sibley supplied the design and manufacture of silicon nitride ceramic roller bearings for an adiabatic diesel engine having significantly improved the surface finish and integrity over previous prototypes for the crankshaft and piston pins. These ceramic rollers operated in testing under high applied and inertial loading conditions. Mr. Sibley also supplied complete solid lubricated camshaft, pushrod and rocker arm bearings, all of which ran successully for over a quarter million cycles. The wear rates of the solid-lubricated bearings were extremely low and demonstrated over 300,000 miles of engine service life.
In addition, Mr. Sibley has significantly extended the state-of-the-art of solid-lubricated steel and ceramic bearings in four critical areas: 1) advanced dynamic analysis computer programs, 2) new solid lubricants, 3) a patented self-contained, internal, solid-lubricant replenishment system, and 4) a temperature compensating bearing/shaft/housing mounting system for all-ceramic bearings.
Mr. Sibley has also organized an interdisciplinary team to provide the materials and bearing technology expertise needed to satisfy the most demanding bearing design requirements. His facilities include complete tribology test equipment and instrumentation located in a 4,000 square foot laboratory. Disciplines available include: high-speed rotating machinery and test-rig design, metallury, bearing manufacturing technology and planning, quality control, metrology, instrumentation, computer controls, programming, and data aquisition.
PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS
Mr. Sibley has published education materials and over 60 technical papers in the areas of lubrication and bearing design. Mr. Sibley has also authored books published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on the role of Viscosity in the Lubrication Mechanism of Rolling-Element Bearings, Computer Analysis of Bearings, and authored a chapter on Rolling Bearings in the ASME Wear Control Handbook. Mr. Sibley has also authored a book on Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication published by the National Bureau of Standards.
In addition, Mr. Sibley has been awarded five patents on lubrication and bearing hardware design. His recent patent (Solid-Lubricated Bearing Assembly) is also being filed in 24 foreign countries. A continuation-in-part patent application has been filed to cover other pertinent technology.