Roller chains are commonly used to transmit mechanical power in many kinds of machineries for wide industrial fields. Roller chain manufactures are doing a lot of efforts to improve the wear resistance through conventional real chain type wear testing with huge amount of time and cost. In this study, a new wear testing machine is developed to evaluate wear amounts more efficiently without using main chain components such as inner plate, outer plate and roller. The results show that the nearly same amounts of wear rate and wear status can be obtained between the newly developed wear testing machine and the conventional machine. It may be concluded that the newly developed wear testing has sufficient reproducibility and can be used more conveniently for investing roller chains compared to the conventional wear testing machine.

滚子链通常用于广泛的工业领域中的多种机械中传递机械动力。滚子链制造商正在通过大量的时间和成本通过常规的实链式磨损测试来改善耐磨性。在这项研究中，开发了一种新的磨损测试机，可在不使用主链组件（例如内板，外板和辊子）的情况下更有效地评估磨损量。结果表明，在新开发的磨损试验机和常规试验机之间可以获得几乎相同的磨损率和磨损状态。可以得出结论，与传统的磨损测试机相比，新开发的磨损测试具有足够的可重复性，并且可以更方便地用于投资滚子链。