Closure to “Discussion of ‘The Hollow-Ended Roller—A Solution for Improving Fatigue Life in Asymmetrically Loaded Cylindrical Roller Bearings’” (1972, ASME J. Lubr. Technol., 94, pp. 162–163)

1972 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-164
Author(s):  
W. J. Derner ◽  
R. A. Goodelle ◽  
L. E. Root ◽  
R. Rung
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Roller Bearings ◽  
Cylindrical Roller

scholarly journals Comparison of planetary bearing load-sharing characteristics in wind turbine gearboxes

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 947-960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Keller ◽  
Yi Guo ◽  
Zhiwei Zhang ◽  
Doug Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Load Sharing ◽  
Position Error ◽  
Bearing Clearance ◽  
Roller Bearings ◽  
Bearing Load ◽  
Tapered Roller ◽  
Tapered Roller Bearings ◽  
Cylindrical Roller

Abstract. In this paper, the planetary load-sharing behavior and fatigue life of different wind turbine gearboxes when subjected to rotor moments are examined. Two planetary bearing designs are compared – one design using cylindrical roller bearings with clearance and the other design using preloaded tapered roller bearings to support both the carrier and planet gears. Each design was developed and integrated into a 750 kW dynamometer tests, the loads on each planet bearing row were measured and compared to finite-element models. Bearing loads were not equally shared between the set of cylindrical roller bearings supporting the planets even in pure torque conditions, with one bearing supporting up to 46 % more load than expected. A significant improvement in planetary bearing load sharing was demonstrated in the gearbox with preloaded tapered roller bearings with maximum loads 20 % lower than the gearbox with cylindrical roller bearings. Bearing life was calculated with a representative duty cycle measured from field tests. The predicted fatigue life of the eight combined planet and carrier bearings for the gearbox with preloaded tapered roller bearings is 3.5 times greater than for the gearbox with cylindrical roller bearings. The influence of other factors, such as carrier and planet bearing clearance, gravity, and tangential pin position error, is also investigated. The combined effect of gravity and carrier bearing clearance was primarily responsible for unequal load sharing. Reducing carrier bearing clearance significantly improved load sharing, while reducing planet clearance did not. Normal tangential pin position error did not impact load sharing due to the floating sun design of this three-planet gearbox.

An Optimum Design of Crowned Cylindrical Roller Bearings Using Genetic Algorithms

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Sunil Kumar ◽  
Rajiv Tiwari ◽  
P. V. V. N. Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Stress Concentration ◽  
Stress Concentrations ◽  
Rolling Bearings ◽  
Design Constraint ◽  
Roller Bearings ◽  
Edge Stress ◽  
Heavy Loads ◽  
Cylindrical Roller

The long fatigue life is the one of the most important criterion for the design of rolling bearings, however, due to complex and diverse internal geometries, each type of rolling bearings require a different design formulation. To increase the life of cylindrical roller bearings, the profile (or the crowning) of the roller plays an important role. A flat profile of the rolling element results in the edge stress concentrations at roller ends. A circular crowning of roller eliminates the edge stress concentration at the lower and moderate loads only; however, it develops edge stress concentrations at heavy loads. The logarithmic profile of the roller results in no edge stress concentration at the low, medium, and heavy loads; distribution of contact stresses is also nearly uniform along the length of the roller. A design methodology for the optimum design of cylindrical roller bearings with the logarithmic profile has been outlined. A nonlinear constrained optimization problem has been formulated for the design of cylindrical roller bearings with logarithmic profiles and is optimized by using real-coded genetic algorithms. The change in roller profile has not been accounted for explicitly in the standard definition of the dynamic capacity; hence, for the present case directly the Lundberg–Palmgren life equation has been chosen as an objective function. Design variables include four bearing geometrical parameters and the two logarithmic profile generating parameters are considered. In addition to these, another five design constraint constants are also included, which indirectly affect the fatigue life of cylindrical roller bearings. The five design constraint constants have been given bounds based on the parametric studies through initial optimization runs. The effective length of the roller is taken corresponding to the standard roller diameter, which has standard discrete dimensions. Constraint violation study has been performed to have an assessment of the effectiveness of each of the constraints. A convergence study has been carried out to ensure the global optimum point in the design. A sensitivity analysis of various geometric design parameters has been performed using the Monte Carlo simulation technique, in order to see changes in the fatigue life of the bearing. Illustrations show that the multiplier of the logarithmic profile deviation parameter has more effect on the fatigue life as compared with other geometric parameters.

scholarly journals Comparison of Planetary Bearing Load-Sharing Characteristics in Wind Turbine Gearboxes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Keller ◽  
Yi Guo ◽  
Zhiwei Zhang ◽  
Doug Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Load Sharing ◽  
Position Error ◽  
Bearing Clearance ◽  
Roller Bearings ◽  
Bearing Load ◽  
Tapered Roller ◽  
Tapered Roller Bearings ◽  
Cylindrical Roller

Abstract. In this paper, the planetary load-sharing behaviour and fatigue life of different wind turbine gearboxes when subjected to rotor moments are examined. Two planetary bearing designs are compared – one design using cylindrical roller bearings with clearance and the other design using preloaded tapered roller bearings to support both the carrier and planet gears. Each design was developed and integrated into a 750-kilowatt gearbox. In field-representative dynamometer tests, the loads on each planet bearing row were measured and compared to finite element models. A significant improvement in planetary bearing load sharing was demonstrated in the gearbox with preloaded tapered roller bearings with maximum loads 20 % lower than the gearbox with cylindrical roller bearings. Bearing life was calculated with a representative duty cycle measured from field tests. The predicted fatigue life of the eight-combined planet and carrier bearings for the gearbox with preloaded tapered roller bearings is 3.5 times greater than for the gearbox with cylindrical roller bearings. The influence of other factors such as carrier and planet bearing clearance, gravity, and tangential pin position error is also investigated. The combined effect of gravity and carrier bearing clearance was primarily responsible for unequal load sharing. Reducing carrier bearing clearance significantly improved load sharing, while reducing planet clearance did not. Normal tangential pin position error did not impact load sharing due to the floating sun design of this three-planet gearbox.

An Analytical Dynamic Model of a Hollow Cylindrical Roller Bearing

2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Liu ◽  
Yimin Shao
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Contact Stiffness ◽  
Roller Bearing ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Radial Load ◽  
Shaft Speed ◽  
Roller Bearings ◽  
Cylindrical Roller ◽  
Analytical Dynamic

Hollow cylindrical roller bearings (HCRBs) have obtained much attention from design engineers in bearing industries since they can perform better than solid cylindrical roller bearings (SCRBs) in centrifugal forces, contact stiffness, cooling ability, fatigue life, etc. In this study, an analytical dynamic model of a lubricated HCRB is presented to analyze the influences of the radial load, the shaft speed, and the hollowness percentage of the roller on the bearing vibrations, which cannot be formulated by the methods in the reported literature. Both the support stiffness of the shaft and the roller mass are formulated in the presented dynamic model. The hollow hole in the roller is modeled as a uniform one. Numerical results show that the hollowness percentage of the roller has a great influence on the vibrations of the roller and the inner race of the HCRB. Moreover, the vibrations of the components of the HCRB are not only determined by the hollowness percentage of the roller, but also depended on the external radial load and shaft speed. Therefore, during the design process for the hollowness percentage of the roller, the influences of the radial load and the shaft speed on the vibrations of the bearing components should be considered, except for the fatigue life. The results show that this work can give a new dynamic method for analyzing the vibrations of the HCRBs. Moreover, it can give some guidance for the design method for the HCRBs.

Axial Load Effect on Contact Fatigue Life of Cylindrical Roller Bearings

2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wangquan (Winston) Cheng ◽  
Shan Shih ◽  
John Grace ◽  
Wenke Tu
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Axial Load ◽  
Roller Bearing ◽  
Contact Fatigue ◽  
Limit Load ◽  
Load Effect ◽  
Roller Bearings ◽  
Contact Fatigue Life ◽  
Fatigue Life Analysis ◽  
Cylindrical Roller

Besides primarily carrying radial load, cylindrical roller bearings with flanges or lips on both inner and outer raceways need also carry axial load in some applications. Because of the axial load, the equivalent dynamic load of the bearing will be increased and the bearing contact fatigue life will be decreased accordingly. The axial load effect on the roller bearing fatigue life had been studied by researchers in the past. Because of different assumptions used in their models, quite different predictions were made in their analysis. This work combines the methods used in the Fernlund-Synek and Brandlein models and studies general contact conditions such as partial contact along the roller length, partial loading zone of the bearing race, manufacturing tolerance and running-in effects on roller length, etc. New formulas for equivalent dynamic loads of the rotating and stationary races are derived. A fatigue limit load is also included in the life calculation to reflect the latest development in contact fatigue life analysis.

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