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ME 3180B - Mechanical Engineering Design - Spring 2005
Bearings No.1Lecture Notes
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BEARINGS
Bearing Types:
• Rolling Element Bearings
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BEARINGS
Bearing Types:
•Sliding / Journal / Plain Bearings
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Sliding / Journal / Plain Bearings
Involves two moving parts, usually steel, cast iron having a sliding
contact with bronze, babbitt, or nonmetallic polymer (nylon, teflon).
Applications for Journal Bearings
• Transmission shafts, links, pins, engine cranshafts and connecting-rod of
automobile, engines, lawn mower, wheels, garden carts, children’s tricycles.
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BEARINGS (Cont’d)
Lubrication
All bearing types have to be lubricated or greased occasionally.
• Why do we lubricate or grease bearings?
– To maintain separation of surfaces.
– To produce low resistance to motion, i.e., low coefficient of friction.
– Remove heat.
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Bearings Cont’d
– Notes:
Babbitt metal is “any of white alloys composed primarily
of tin or lead and lesser amounts of antimony, copper,
and other metals, and used for bearings.”
Materials with inherently low coefficients of friction,
such as nylon and teflon, are often used in light-load
applications as bearing materials, with no other
lubrication.
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BEARINGS (Cont’d)
Comparison of Rolling and Sliding Bearings
• Rolling element bearings have a number of advantages over sliding
contact bearings and vice versa. Hamrock[26] lists following
advantages of rolling over sliding bearings:
– Low starting and good operating friction, μstatic≈ μdynamic (Starting
torque is considerably lower. It is, in fact, not much greater than
running torque.)
– Can support combined radial and thrust (axial) loads
– Less sensitive to interruptions of lubrication – No self-excited instabilities
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Bearings Cont’d
Comparison of Rolling and Sliding Bearings Cont’d
– Good low-temperature starting
– Can seal lubricant within bearing and “lifetime-lubricate”
– Typically require less space in axial direction
– Bearings are internationally standardized making for more
economical designs and easier torque.
– They can be arranged so as to position very precisely parts they
connect, both radially and axially.
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BEARINGS (Cont’d)
Comparison of Rolling and Sliding Bearings
• Following are disadvantages of rolling bearings compared to
hydrodynamic conformal sliding bearings[26]:
– Rolling bearings may eventually fail from fatigue
– Require more space in radial direction
– Poor damping ability
– Higher noise level
– More severe alignment requirements
– Higher cost
– Higher friction
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Rolling-Element Bearings
To introduce rolling-element bearings brief review of sliding bearings may
be helpful.Sliding bearings commonly involve steel shafts supported by bearingsurfaces of wear-compatible materials such as bronze or tetraflouroethylene (TFE), as duPont’s Teflon.
Good for low speed applications (lawn mower wheels, garden carts,
children’s tricycles, etc.). Sliding bearings involve use of oil but lubricant does not completelyseparate surfaces.
On the other hand, sliding bearings used with engine crankshafts experience hydrodynamic lubrication during normal operation; thereforeoil film completely separates surfaces.
Rolling-element bearings involve separation of shaft and outer memberby balls or rollers, and ensuing friction is called rolling friction.
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Rolling Element Barings
A major advantage of rolling-element bearings is low starting friction.
Sliding bearings can achieve comparable low friction only with full-film
lubrication (complete surface separation). This requires hydrostatic
lubrication with costly auxiliary external supply system, or
hydrodynamic lubrication, which cannot be achieved during starting.
Rolling-element bearings are known as “anti-friction” bearings. This term
is perhaps unfortunate because these bearings do not in all cases provide
lower friction than fluid-film bearings. With normal operating loads,
rolling-element bearings (without seals) typically provide coefficients of friction between 0.001 and 0.002.
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Rolling-Element Bearings (Cont’d)
Rolling-element bearings take up more radial space around shaft, but plain bearings usually require greater axial space.
Rolling-element bearings generate and transmit a certain amount of noise,whereas fluid-film bearings do not normally generate noise and maydampen noise from other sources.
Sliding bearings are cheaper than ball or roller bearings for simple
applications where minimal lubrication provision is required. Wheresliding bearings require forced lubrication system, overall cost of rolling-element bearings may be lower.
Another advantage of ball and roller bearings is that they can be“preloaded” (mating bearing elements are pressed together rather thanoperating with small clearance). This is important in applications requiring
precise positioning of rotating member.
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Rolling-Element Bearings (Cont’d)
Rolling-element bearings are ideally suited for applications involving
high starting loads. For example, use of roller bearings to support rail caraxles eliminates need for extra locomotive to get long train started.
On the other hand, fluid film bearings (slide bearings) are well suited for
high rotating speeds with impact and momentary overloads. Higher
the rotating speed, more effective the hydrodynamic pumping action.Also, fluid film effectively “cushions” impact, as duration involved is too
short for film to be squeezed out.
High rotating speeds are generally disadvantageous to rolling-element
bearings because of rapid accumulation of fatigue cycles and high
centrifugal force on rolling elements.
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Rolling-Element Bearings (Cont’d)
• Radial (for carrying radial loads)
• Thrust, or axial-contact (for carrying axial loads)
• Angular-contact (for carrying combined radial and axial loads) Note: Needle Roller Bearings is special type of cylindrical roller bearing
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Classification of Rolling-Element Bearings
Figure 10-20 Classification of Rolling-Element BearingsCourtesy of NTN Corporation
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Types and Characteristics of Rolling Bearings (Courtesy, NSK Corp.)
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Types and Characteristics of Rolling Bearings (Courtesy, NSK Corp.) (Cont’d)
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Types and Characteristics of Rolling Bearings (Courtesy, NSK Corp.) (Cont’d)
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FIGURE 11-2 Various Types of Ball Bearings.
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FIGURE 20.8 Types of Ball Bearings. (Courtesy, NSK Corp.)
(a) Radial Bearings.
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FIGURE 20.8 Types of Ball Bearings. (Courtesy, NSK Corp.) (Cont’d)
(b) Thrust Bearings.
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FIGURE 14.10 (i, j Courtesy Thompson Industries, Inc.)
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FIGURE 14.10 (i, j Courtesy Thompson Industries, Inc.) (Cont’d)
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FIGURE 14.5. Cylindrical Roller Bearings. (Courtesy Hoover-
NSK Bearing Co.)
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FIGURE 14.5. Cylindrical Roller Bearings. (Courtesy Hoover-
NSK Bearing Co.) (Cont’d)
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FIGURE 14.6. Spherical Roller Bearings. (Courtesy Hoover-
NSK Bearing Co.)
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FIGURE 20.11 Roller-Bearing Types. (Courtesy, NSK Corp.)
(a) Radial Bearings.
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FIGURE 20.11 Roller-Bearing Types. (Courtesy, NSK Corp.) (Cont’d)
(b) Thrust Bearings.
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FIGURE 14.9. Needle Roller Bearings. (Courtesy, The Torrington Co.)
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FIGURE 14.9. Needle Roller Bearings. (Courtesy, The Torrington Co.)
(Cont’d)
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FIGURE 20.10 Special Adaptations of Ball Bearings.(a) Automotive fan and water-pump shaft bearing. Here inner race is shaft itself. (Courtesy, New Departure Hyatt, General Motors.)
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FIGURE 20.10 Special Adaptations of Ball Bearings. (Cont’d)
(b) Cutaway view of ball screw. Endless row of balls separates nut from
screw and allows rotary motion to be converted to linear movement
with minimum of friction. This scheme is used in many vehicle
steering mechanisms. (Courtesy, Thompson Saginaw Ball Screw Co.)(c) Linear ball-bearing guide. These units also utilize endless rows of
balls. Coefficients of friction as low as 0.002 can be achieved.
(Courtesy, NSK Corp.)
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Shield and Seal Bearings
Self lubricating bearings must have seals or shields to keep oil or grease in,and protection against contamination.
Shields
• Close-fitting but nonrubbing thin washer;• Protect bearing against all but very small foreign particles and help retain
lubrication.
FIGURE 14.4
Bearings with shields.
(Courtesy New Departure-Hyatt
Division, General
Motors Corp.)
Shield and Seal Bearings (Cont’d)
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Shield and Seal Bearings (Cont d) Seals:
• Having rubbing contact;
• Provide greater lubricant retention and protection againstcontamination;
• With suitable seals, it is feasible to grease/lubricate bearing for life atthe time of assembly;
• Disadvantage:
– Introduce frictional drag and subject to wear.
FIGURE 14.4
Bearings with seals.
(Courtesy New Departure-Hyatt
Division, General
Motors Corp.) (Cont’d)
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REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS
Tapered roller bearings are intended to take considerable thrust loads and are
most often used in pairs. A common example is front-wheel bearings of rear-
drive vehicles, as shown in Fig. 20.12.
Front-wheel-drive cars generally have enclosed double-row ball bearings.
No bearing has infinite life. In many applications down time associated with
changing bearings can be very costly, and design must take into account this
important economic factor.
Imagine, for example, cost of having excavator shown in Fig. 20.13 idle, and labor
involved in disassembling major parts for bearing change.
Bearings on bucket shaft and its drive are split double-row spherical roller
bearings, such as shown in Fig. 20.13.
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FIGURE 20.12
Section through front-wheel hub and suspension showing
wheel bearings. Since road reaction (for straight-ahead driving) is
vertical through center of tire, in-board bearing takes nearly all of it
and is therefore larger. (Courtesy, Jaguar Cars, Ltd.)
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FIGURE 20.13
Large split bearings find use in heavy machinery. (Courtesy,
FAG Bearings Corp.)
(a) Bucketwheel excavator for daily stripping rate of 240,000 m3.
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FIGURE 20.13
Large split bearings find use in heavy machinery. (Courtesy, FAG
Bearings Corp.) (Cont’d)
(b) All components of this bearing are in two parts. Note bolt for
joining roller-cage parts. Bearings like this are used in excavator