Dr. Dmitri Kopeliovich

• VP R&D of King Engine Bearings.
• World leading expert (32 years of experience) in design, technology and materials for Engine bearings in applications such as automotive, renewable energy, aviation, racing and others.
• Founder and owner of SubsTech (Substances & Technologies) – a leading professional website on Materials Science and Engineering.
• Author of numerous scientific and engineering publications and patents.
• Founder and owner of Smooth Sliding.

SubsTech’s sister website Smooth Sliding provides independent engineering consulting services that help you to solve engine bearing related issues:

• Engine bearing failure analysis
• Investigation of engine bearing metallurgy: properties, microstructure, composition
• Selection of the best bearing material for a particular engine
• Analysis of engine bearing geometry and dimensions
• Theoretical calculations of hydrodynamic lubrication
• Development of engine bearings
• General questions on materials engineering: technologies, metallurgy, material properties and behavior

For further information and for requesting consulting services please visit Smooth Sliding.

• Engine bearing failure analysis
• Development of materials for sliding bearings
• Design of Sliding Bearings
• Lubrication of Sliding Bearings
• Hydrodynamic calculations of sliding bearing operation
• Automotive Engine Bearings
• Heavy Duty Engine Bearings
• High performance bearings for racing car engines
• Aviation Engine Bearings
• Sliding bearings for water pumps
• Sliding bearings for compressors
• Sliding bearings for crude oil pump motors
• Functional testing and validation of sliding bearings

• Metallurgical examinations (optical microscope, electron microscope, hardness tests)
• Tribological tests of anti-friction materials
• Failure analysis
• Adhesion tests
• Thermodynamic, dynamic and hydrodynamic calculations
• Fatigue tests
• Engine dynamometer tests

• Continuous casting of non-ferrous alloys
• Sintering of copper alloys
• Thermal treatment of aluminum and ferrous alloys
• Plastic deformation (rolling, stamping)
• Electroplating (tin alloys, lead alloys, nickel, chrome, silver alloys)
• Polymer coating
• Physical Vapor Deposition of anti-friction coatings
• Surface preparation, treatment and adhesion enhancement
• Metal matrix composites
• Polymer matrix composites