Advances in Bearing Lubrication and Thermal Sciences

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: History of engineering and technology; Mechanical engineering and materials; Technology: general issues; angular contact ball bearing; axial operating stiffness; bearing assembly quality; bearing dynamic model; bearing dynamics; bearing heat generation; bearing lubrication enhancement; bearing stiffness; bidirectional long- and short-term memory neural network; cage instability; cage motions experiment; cavitation effect; ceramic ball; conduct heat; contact angle; contact ellipse major axis; contact force distribution; contrastive learning; convolutional neural network; dynamics performance; few-layer graphene; four-point contact ball bearing; friction and wear properties; friction loss; friction torque; full ceramic ball bearing; full-ceramic ball bearing; full-type needle bearing; gated neural network; gated recurrent unit; geometric homogeneity of rollers; groove structure; health indicator; heat generation analysis; herringbone spiral groove; kernel principal component analysis; lithium complex grease; load distribution; lubricant oil film; lubricating oil; machine tool; multiball random collision; multiple parameter coupling; optimum structural parameters; outer ring inclination; peak impact force; performance degradation; positive and negative samples; probability density function; remaining service life of rolling bearings; remaining useful life prediction; remaining useful-life prediction; rolling bearing; self-attention; self-lubricating; service performance; similarities between time series; simulation model; sliding length; spacer inclination; stiffness hardening; stiffness softening; tapered roller bearings; temperature distribution; temperature fields; turbulence; variation degree; viscoelasticity; water lubrication; wavelet packet transform
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication

 This reprint focuses on the hot issue of bearing lubrication and thermal analysis, and brings together many cutting-edge studies, such as bearing multi-body dynamics, bearing tribology, new lubrication and heat dissipation structures, bearing self-lubricating materials, thermal analysis of bearing assembly process, bearing service state prediction, etc. The purpose of this reprint is to explore recent developments in bearing thermal mechanisms and lubrication technology, as well as the impact of bearing operating parameters on their lubrication performance and thermal behavior.