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BEARING
Antifriction Bearing
Is a precision item and can not be Designed but only Selected out of available ones!
TIMKEN, SKF
Size?
Working
Advantage?
Although the starting friction is about twice the
running friction, but still it is negligible in
comparison with the starting friction of a journal
bearing
Rolling elements
Conrad type
Bearing life
Virtually infinite!
If maintained in condition of clean and properly lubricated,
is mounted and sealed against the entrance of dust and dirt
and is operated at reasonable temperatures, then metal
fatigue will be the only cause of failure.
For example Timken company takes the failure criterion as
a wear area of 6.45 mm2.
Wear debris, vibration etc. may be other criteria.
Bearing life of an individual bearing is defined as the total
number of revolutions (or hours at a constant speed) of
bearing operation until the failure criterion is developed.
Rating life
The rating life is used by AFBMA (Anti-friction Bearing
Manufacturers Association)
Experimentally
obtained data
plotted, for 90%
reliability
Rating Life
Fig: Typical bearing load-life log-log curve.
Rating Load=C10
F1L1 a F2 L2 a
Desired
Life=LD
Rating
Life=L10
Associating the load F1 with C10, the catalogue rating that you need to look at, and
the life measure in revolutions L1 with the L10, which is the manufacturer specific
quantity, FD and LD refer to the design quantities for the bearing to be selected, we
can write,
C10 L10
1/ a
FD LD
1/ a
Here If we want to specify in the life hours, then we can write, rpm (nR & nD) values:
C10 R nR 60
1/ a
FD D nD 60
1/ a
C10 R nR 60
1/ a
FD D nD 60
1/ a
Catalog rating, kN
Rating life in hours
D n D 60
FD
LR n R 60
1/ a
D n D 60
FD
rating life
1/ a
Table 115
Table 113
Table 112:
Shoulder dimensions:
What ds and dH in the catalogues
mean
When dissimilar bearings are to be chosen at the two ends, the more
critical of the two will be designed for Rt. RB=Rt/RA=Rt/Rt=1. Thus
automatically the second bearing will have 100% reliability.
x x0 b
R exp[(
) ]
x0
R=reliability
x=life measure dimensionless variate, L/L10
x0=guaranteed, or minimum value of the variate
=characteristic parameter corresponding to the 63.2121 percentile value of the
variate; b= shape parameter that controls the skewness
FB xB a FD xDa FB FD
Along a constant load line (AB),
x x
0
RD exp B
x0
Solving xB
x Da
1
xB a
1/ b
xB x0 x0 ln
RD
substituti ng
1/ a
xD
xD
FB C10 FD 1 FD
1/ b
a
x
ln
1
/
R
xB
0
D
0
C10 FD (
xD
1/ a
)
, R 0.90
1/ b
x0 ( x0 )(1 RD )
Fe
1
VFr
when
Fe
F
X Y a
VFr
VFr
when
Fe X iVFr Yi Fa
Fe may separately be multiplied by service factor if load is not steady
For horizontal line zone, i=1 and for inclined line zone, i=2.
Table 11-1 gives the values of Xi and Yi.
Table 111
Equivalent Radial Load Factors for Ball Bearings
Variable loading:
Three types of variable loading are possible:
1) Piecewise constant loading in a cycle pattern
F L= Constant = K
F may be already be an equivalent
steady radial load for radial-thrust load
combination
F l F l f l
Feq [
]
l1 l2 l3
a
1 1
Feq
a
2 2
nt F
[
n t
i i
i i
a
ei 1/ a
a
3 3 1/ a
[ fi Fi ]
a 1/ a
Feq { fi [( AF )i Fei ] }
a 1/ a