Bearings_linear_carriages.

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To determine forces on each of 4 learn bearing carriages centered about a coordinate system
Written by Alex Slocum. Last modified 10/9/2006 by Alex Slocum. Last modified 04/13/2008 Brian Luterbach.
Enters numbers in BOLD, Results in RED. NOTE: BE CONSISTENT WITH UNITS
Assumes supported structure is much stiffer than bearing carriages, and misalignment loads are conservatively estimated to be
product bearing carriage stiffness (N/micron) and misalignment (microns)
Location of center of stiffness
Xcs 0
Y Bearing Carriage
Ycs 0 Stiffness contribution from rows Xi, Yi, Ki
Actuator stiffness Kxact
(assume actuator placed at
Ycs) (N/micron) 1000 Row 1 Row 2 Row 3
Net Y radial stiffness Kycs
(N/micron) 4000 2000 0 2000
Net Z radial stiffness Kzcs Center of
(N/micron) 4000 2000 0 2000 Stiffness
Net roll (KqX) stiffness Xcs, Ycs
Kroll (N-m/microrad) 4000 2000 0 2000
Net pitch (KqY) stiffness
Kpitch (N-m/microrad) 4000 2000 0 2000
Net yaw (KqZ) stiffness
Kyaw (N-m/microrad) 2828 1414 0 1414 X
Resultant forces and moments at center Resultant deflections at center of Z
of stiffness stiffness
Fx (N) 0 dxcs (micron) 0.000
Fy (N) 0 dycs (micron) 0.000
Fz (N) 100 dzcs (micron) 0.025
Mx (N-m) 100 excs (microrad) 0.025
My (N-m) 100 eycs (microrad) 0.025
Mz (N-m) 0 ezcs (microrad) 0.000

First row of bearings Resultants

Height error: Z
Ky Radial Kz Radial Y Z resultant Total
Bearing bearing-to- Z Displacement Y resultant Misalign
stiffness stiffness X position (m) Y position (m) Displacement applied load Z load
Carriage # structure (microns) applied load (N) ment load
(M/micron) (M/micron) (microns) (N) (N)
(microns) (N)
1 1000 1000 -1 1 0 0.000 0.075 0 75 0 75
2 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.025 0 0 0 0
 3 1000 1000 1 1 0 0.000 0.025 0 25 0 25
4 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.025 0 0 0 0
5 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.025 0 0 0 0
Second row of bearings Resultants
Height error: Z
Ky Radial Kz Radial Y Z resultant Total
Bearing bearing-to- Z Displacement Y resultant Misalign
stiffness stiffness X position (m) Y position (m) Displacement applied load Z load
Carriage # structure (microns) applied load (N) ment load
(M/micron) (M/micron) (microns) (N) (N)
(microns) (N)
1 0 0 0 0.25 5 0.000 0.031 0 0 0 0
2 0 0 0.3 0.25 5 0.000 0.024 0 0 0 0
3 0 0 1.5 0.25 5 0.000 -0.006 0 0 0 0
4 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.025 0 0 0 0
5 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.025 0 0 0 0
Third row of bearings Resultants
Height error: Z
Ky Radial Kz Radial Y Z resultant Total
Bearing bearing-to- Z Displacement Y resultant Misalign
stiffness stiffness X position (m) Y position (m) Displacement applied load Z load
Carriage # structure (microns) applied load (N) ment load
(M/micron) (M/micron) (microns) (N) (N)
(microns) (N)
1 1000 1000 -1 -1 0 0.000 0.025 0 25 0 25
2 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.025 0 0 0 0
3 1000 1000 1 -1 0 0.000 -0.025 0 -25 0 -25
4 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.025 0 0 0 0
5 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.025 0 0 0 0
 Applied loads and locations
Fx (N) 0 Fy (N) 0 Fz (N) 100
xFx (m) 0 xFy (m) 0 xFz (m) -1

yFx (m) 0 yFy (m) 0 yFz (m) 1

zFx (m) 0 zFy (m) 0 zFz (m) 0

Y Bearing Carriage
Xi, Yi, Ki

Center of
Stiffness
Xcs, Ycs

X
Z