The invention provides a method for predicting the
wear resistance of lubricating
base oil according to chemical structures. The method includes steps of 1), generating three-dimensional chemical structures of molecules of the lubricating
base oil; 2), minimizing energy of the three-dimensional chemical structures; 3), computing an EVA (evaluation of an
infrared vibration-based descriptor) parameter of each three-dimensional
chemical structure; 4), preprocessing wear surface data of a friction pair sample after the lubricating
base oil is applied to the friction pair sample; 5), performing regression on the EVA parameters and the wear surface data by means of partial
least squares, and establishing a relationship between the preprocessed wear surface data and the EVA parameters so as to create a quantitative prediction model; 6), performing
cross validation on the prediction model; 7), predicting the wear area of the friction pair sample according to the created prediction model when the lubricating base oil is applied to the friction pair sample in an experimental state. The method has the advantages that a computer-aided
design process is introduced into the field of lubricating oil design for the first time on the basis of the
quantitative structure-tribo-ability relationship, the method is beneficial to reducing lubricating oil design risks and research cost, and the lubricating oil development efficiency can be greatly improved.