Methods to determine which members, individually or in combination, a set of elementary tests are predictive of a set of elementary, intermediate test results of final use, in order to provide a sample candidate will set the basic test results End use,To provide a sample of lubricant candidate will be approved in a test of end use chosen for lubricants, to determine which combination of states a set of elementary tests intermediate that has a high correlation with a set of basic results of ' Ste of end use and to choose components and quantities of components in lubricants.Functional fluids and greases

摘要

The present invention is directed to a method that determines the necessary and sufficient tests to relate a variety of apparently non-related tests to desired final test results. The present invention also provides a method to determine those tests which, having been shown capable to be used in a high-throughput environment, are able to predict end-use qualification test results for lubricants, greases or industrial fluids. As a corollary, the present invention provides a method to select lubricant formulations and components based on apparently non-related, but predictive tests. In an applied example, the present invention is directed to a device and method that produces and evaluates formulated lubricants, functional fluids, and greases by determining previously unknown relationships between Intermediate Tests and End-use Tests.