Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology is the perfect aid for analyzing complex performance and fatigue-life phenomena in advanced applications.

Features:

• Supplies a gateway to evaluating bearing performance and predicting service life in complex applications
• Covers lubrication, temperature effects, dynamic loading, friction effects, failure modes, and endurance testing
• Includes a CD-ROM with numerical examples and many tables of data compiled from ABMA/ANSI standards
• Presents updated and more accurate methods to analyze stresses due to loading, mounting, ring speeds, material processing, and particulate contamination

Contents

Distribution of Internal Loading in Statically Loaded Bearings

• Ball Bearings Under Combined Radial, Thrust, and Moment Load
• Misalignment of Radial Roller Bearings
• Thrust Loading of Radial Cylindrical Roller Bearings
• Radial, Thrust, and Moment Loading of Radial Roller Bearings
• Stresses in Roller-Raceway Non-Ideal Line Contacts
• Flexibly Supported Rolling Bearings

Bearing Component Motions and SPeeds

• Rolling and Sliding
• Orbital, Pivotal and Spinning Motions in Ball Bearings
• Roller End-Flange Sliding in Roller Bearings

High Speed Operation

• Dynamic Loading of Rolling Elements
• High Speed Ball Bearings
• High Speed Radial Cylindrical Roller Bearings
• High Speed Tapered and Spherical Roller Bearings
• Five Degrees of Freedom in Loading

Lubricant Films in Rolling Element Raceway Contacts

• Hydrodynamic Lubrication
• Isothermal Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication
• Very High Pressure Effects
• Inlet Lubricant Friction Heating Effects
• Starvation of Lubricant
• Surface Topography Effects
• Grease Lubrication
• Lubrication Regimes

Friction in Rolling Element Raceway Contacts

• Rolling Friction
• Sliding Friction
• Real Surfaces, Microgeometry, and Microcontacts

Friction Effects in Rolling Bearings

• Bearing Friction Sources
• Bearing Operation with Solid-film Lubrication: Effects of Friction Force and Moments
• Bearing Operation with Fluid-film Lubrication: Effects of Friction Force and Moments
• Cage Motions and Forces
• Roller Skewing

Rolling Bearing Temperatures

• Friction Heat Generation
• Heat Transfer
• Analysis of Heat Flow
• High Temperature Considerations
• Heat Transfer in a Rolling-Sliding Contact

Application Load and Life Factors

• Effect of Bearing Internal Load Distribution on Fatigue Life
• Effect of Lubrication on Fatigue Life
• Effect of Material and Material Processing on Fatigue Life
• Effect of Contamination on Fatigue Life
• Combining Fatigue Life Factors
• Limitations of the Lundberg-Palmgren Theory
• Ioannides-Harris Theory
• The Stress-Life Factor

Statically Indeterminate Shaft Bearing Systems

• Two Bearing Systems
• Three Bearing Systems
• Multiple Bearing Systems

Failure and Damage Modes in Rolling Bearings

• Bearing Failure Due to Faulty Lubrication
• Fracture of Bearing Rings Due to Fretting
• Bearing Failure Due to Excessive Thrust Loading
• Bearing Failure Due to Cage Fracture
• Incipient Failure Due to Pitting and/or Indentation of the Rolling Contact Surfaces
• Wear
• Micropitting
• Surface-Initiated Fatigue
• Subsurface-Initiated Fatigue

Index

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