ADHESION INFLUENCES ON THE PRESSURE AND CARRYING CAPACITY OF CYLINDRICAL MICROBEARINGS
Journal Title: Tribologia - Year 2009, Vol 227, Issue 5
Abstract
This paper presents a new numerical method of hydrodynamic pressure determination in micro-bearing lubrication. We are considering the microbearing where the attained journal diameter values are about 1 millimetre and the micro-bearing gap height has values up to one micrometer. The lubricant in such thin gap has specific properties, which are different in comparison to the oil in classical bearings. For example, the adhesion and cohesion forces change the dynamic lubricant viscosity in the very thin bearing gap. On the lubricant, dynamic viscosity changes have an influence on the following interactions: a damping of liquid forces, electrostatic forces, capillary forces, Van der Waals molecular forces, and Coulomb repulsive forces. In this case, we can observe the main changes of lubricant dynamic viscosity in gap height direction. This fact implies to the new value of hydrodynamic pressure obtained from adhesion and cohesion forces, which never occurs in classical bearings. The present paper shows the numerical method of the determination of the mentioned additional hydrodynamic pressure caused by the adhesion and cohesion forces in micro-bearing gaps.<br/><br/>
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Krzysztof Wierzcholski
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