Discussion: “Endurance Tests With Large-Bore Tapered-Roller Bearings to 2.2 Million DN” (Parker, R. J., Signer, H. R., and Pinel, S. I., 1982, ASME J. Lubr. Technol., 104, pp. 293–298)

1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-299
Author(s):  
P. S. Orvos
1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Parker ◽  
H. R. Signer ◽  
S. I. Pinel

Endurance life tests were run with standard design and optimized high-speed design 120.65-mm- (4.750-in.-) bore tapered-roller bearings at shaft speeds of 12,500 and 18,500 rpm, respectively. Standard design bearings of vacuum melted AISI 4320 and CBS-1000M, and high-speed design bearings of CBS-1000M and through-hardened AISI M-50 were run under heavy combined radial and thrust load until fatigue failure or until a preset cutoff time of 1100 hours was reached. Standard design bearings made from CBS 1000M material ran to a 10-percent life approximately six times rated catalog life. Twelve identical bearings of AISI 4320 material ran to ten times rated calalog life without failure. Cracking and fracture of the cones of AISI M-50 high-speed design bearings occurred at 18,500 rpm due to high tensile hoop stresses. Four CBS 1000M high-speed design bearings ran to twenty-four times rated catalog life without any spalling, cracking or fracture failures.


Lubricants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Sven Wirsching ◽  
Max Marian ◽  
Marcel Bartz ◽  
Thomas Stahl ◽  
Sandro Wartzack

In the context of targeted improvements in energy efficiency, secondary rolling bearing contacts are gaining relevance. As such, the elastohydrodynamically lubricated (EHL) roller face/rib contact of tapered roller bearings significantly affects power losses. Consequently, this contribution aimed at numerical optimization of the pairing’s macro-geometric parameters. The latter were sampled by a statistical design of experiments (DoE) and the tribological behavior was predicted by means of EHL contact simulations. For each of the geometric pairings considered, a database was generated. Key target variables such as pressure, lubricant gap and friction were approximated by a meta-model of optimal prognosis (MOP) and optimization was carried out using an evolutionary algorithm (EA). It was shown that the tribological behavior was mainly determined by the basic geometric pairing and the radii while eccentricity was of subordinate role. Furthermore, there was a trade-off between high load carrying capacity and low frictional losses. Thereby, spherical or toroidal geometries on the roller end face featuring a large radius paired with a tapered rib geometry were found to be advantageous in terms of low friction. For larger lubricant film heights and load carrying capacity, spherical or toroidal roller on toroidal rib geometries with medium radii were favorable.


2021 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 106876
Author(s):  
Justino A.O. Cruz ◽  
Pedro M.T. Marques ◽  
Jorge H.O. Seabra ◽  
Ramiro C. Martins

Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Brosed ◽  
A. Zaera ◽  
Emilio Padilla ◽  
Fernando Cebrián ◽  
Juan Aguilar

Tapered roller bearings can accommodate high radial loads as well as high axial loads. The manufacturing process consists of machining processes for ring and component assembly. In this contribution, the parameters of influence on the measurement procedure were studied. These parameters of influence were classified as environmental, process, and machine parameters. The main objective of this work was to optimize the process using real-time measurements, which required the study of the influence of several parameters on the measurement uncertainty and how to correct their effects.


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