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Rolling Contact Bearing
Rolling Contact Bearing
Bearings?
Lecture 23
Inner and outer races are typically pressed onto the shaft or Angular ball bearings have higher thrust load capacity
hub with a slight interference fit to make them move with the in one direction than due radial ball bearings.
shaft (inner race) or remain stationary (outer race).
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Heavy Duty
Drawn Cup
Radial Cylindrical Radial Tapered
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Other Types of Bearings Rolling Contact Bearing
Materials
Sperical
Polymer
Bearings The space shuttle uses silicon nitride balls
in the oxygen and hydrogen turbopumps.
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Mott, Table 14-2
Bronze Bushings
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Rated Load/Life Example Bearing Data
Relationship
k
L 2 æ F1 ö Bearing manufacturers
=ç ÷ provide one set of data
L1 çè F2 ÷ø relating load and life.
k
æCö This equation is used to
L 2 = çç ÷÷ × 106 Revolutions find the life at different
è F2 ø loads.
SKF Catalog
1k
é j k ù
ê å Ti n i (Fe,i ) ú
Fe ≡ ê i =1 j ú
ê ú
ê i =1
ë
å T i n i ú
û Mott, Fig. 14-13
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Assignment
1. A certain application requires a bearing to last for 1800 h
with a reliability of 90 percent. What should be the rated
life of the bearing?
4. Read www.timken.com/bearings/fundamen/