Bearings

Bearings are used for carrying loads while allowing

relative motion(rotation) with minimum friction

Types of bearings:
Rolling contact or anti-friction bearing
Journal or sleeve bearings(sliding contact bearing)
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Bearings
Rolling Contact Bearings load is transferred through
rolling elements such as balls, straight and tapered cylinders
and spherical rollers.

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Journal (sleeve) Bearings load is transferred through

a thin film of lubricant (oil).

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Bearings
Journal (Sleeve) Bearings
Load is transferred through a lubricant in sliding contact

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Design Considerations
Bearings are selected from catalogs, before referring to
catalogs you should know the followings:
Bearing load radial, thrust (axial) or both

Thrust load

Radial load

Radial load

Bearing life and reliability

Bearing speed (rpm)
Space limitation
Accuracy
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Rolling Contact Bearings

1. Ball bearings
Deep groove ball bearing
Angular contact bearings (AC)
Self alignment ball bearing
2. Roller bearings
Cylindrical bearings(straight roller
bearing)
Needle bearings
In general, ball bearings
are capable of higher
Tapered bearings
speeds and roller
Spherical bearings
bearings can carry
3. Thrust bearings
greater loads
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Comparison of rolling contact and

journal bearings
Rolling contact bearings have low starting friction and are used for
applications with high starting loads(coefficient of friction between 0.001
and 0.002)
Journal bearings with hydrodynamic lubrication are suited for high
rotating speeds with impact loads(the higher the rotating speed, the more
effective the hydrodynamic pumping action
Rolling contact bearings take up more radial space around the shaft, but
journal bearings usually require greater axial space
Rolling contact bearings produce more noise
Journal bearings are less expensive than ball or roller bearing for simple
applications

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Types of Ball bearings

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Ball Bearings
Deep groove (Conrad) bearing

Load capacity is limited by the number of balls

Primarily designed to support radial loads, the thrust

capacity is about 70% of radial load capacity

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Ball Bearings
Angular contact bearings (AC)
The centerline of contact between the balls and the raceway is
at an angle to the plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation.

Extra support
in the back
Direction
of thrust

Used for high radial and thrust load applications

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Self alignment bearing

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Roller Bearings
Roller bearings have higher load capacity than ball bearings, load is
transmitted through line contact instead of point contact.

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Cylindrical bearing

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Needle bearing

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Tapered bearings

Roller Bearings

Designed to withstand high radial loads, high thrust loads, and

combined loads at moderate to high speeds. They can also withstand
repeated shock loads.

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Car wheel bearings

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Tapered Bearings
Indirect and Direct mounting

Indirect mounting

Indirect mounting
provides greater rigidity
when pair of bearings is
closely spaced: front
wheel of a car, drums,
sheaves,..

Direct mounting
provides greater rigidity
when pair of bearings is
not closely spaced:
transmission, speed
reducers, rollers,..
Direct mounting

aa = effective bearing spread

Measure of the rigidity
of the bearing mounting
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Roller Bearings
Bearing design uses barrel shaped rollers. Spherical roller bearings
combine very high radial load capacity with modest thrust load capacity
and excellent tolerance to misalignment.

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Roller Thrust Bearings

Spherical Thrust Bearings
Cylindrical
Thrust
Bearings

Tapered Thrust
Bearings

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Ball thrust bearing

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Mounting Bearings
Pillow Block

Common mounting, inner ring

held in position by nuts threaded
onto the shaft.

Flange

Alternative method, inner ring is

press fitted onto the shaft.

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Two-bearing mounting

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