As Fg ™MA3001 — Machine Element Design “RECESS (1 $059 Contact Bearings +e Ast/P Holden ti Tae ari School ef Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering SS —— =< Nanyang Technological University Email: holdenli@ntu.eduse pore hart air eee es ae raed airebos Tid You are asked to select/design bearings for the shaft where reaction forces at bearings have been computed. + Which type of bearings should be selected? (Process 1) ‘+ What size of bearings to be specified? (Process 2) + How are the bearings to be installed on the shaft, and how does that affect shaft design? (Process 3) pore oars ere tte Coeff nat Types of Rolling Contact Bearings deep-groove ball bearing ‘angular contact ball bearing al roller bearing taper roller bearing spherical roller bearing needle bearing thrust bearing ... (all avail. in Catalogs) iairvaen Teen nse Ns Cay fin at Re inna * Bearing (sliding/rolling) is used to support @ load while permitting relative motion (translation and/or rotation) between two machine elements: + Rolling contact bearings refer tothe wide variety of bearings that use bols or rollers between the stationary and the moving elements + Bearing usually supports a rotating sha, resisting pure radial and/or axial (thrust) loads * Most bearings are used in applications involving rotation, but some are used in linear motion application ‘air Ter? re caf rt G2G¢ G@er ahd Fee nce Nt Cty of astRolling Contact Bearing Rolling Contact Bearing The main components of a typical rolling contact bearing are inner race, outer race, and rolling elements (balls or rollers) + usually the outer race is stationary and is held by the housing of the machine. The inner race is pressed onto the rotating shaft and thus rotates with it. Then the balls roll between the outer and inner races Rolling Contact Bearing Rolling Contact Bearing + the load path is from the shaft, to the inner race, to the balls, to the outer race, and finally to the housing + the presence of the balls/rollers allows a very smooth, low friction rotation of the shaft: coefficient of friction for a rolling contact bearing is about 0.001 to 0,002