The Air Lubrication Behavior of a Kingsbury Thrust Bearing Demonstration
Open Access
- 27 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in International Journal of Rotating Machinery
- Vol. 2021, 1-10
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6690479
Abstract
In order to understand the air lubrication behavior of Kingsbury thrust bearing demonstration, an experimental and theoretical investigation on a simulated Kingsbury thrust bearing was presented. The motions of the thrust disk and tilting pads were measured by eddy current sensors for three mass load cases. A simplified theoretical model governing the motion of the thrust disk was established. The bearing successfully passed the examination of lamp extinction and maintained the maximum rotation time of 16s. The effective hydrodynamic film with a thickness of about 5μm was concentrated on the middle region of the working surface under a flatness of 0.010mm. The adverse effect of the three surface bumps was minimized by the swing motion of tilting pads. Moreover, about 1/3 air film thickness was shown to be wasted due to the surface irregularity. However, the requirements of surface quality and misalignment were appropriately relaxed through the design of the centrally pivoted tilting pads. This design is conducive to thin-film lubrication and is a potential application for microturbines.Keywords
Funding Information
- Nanjing Institute of Technology (52075096, YKJ201814)
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