Virtual Textured Hybrid Bearings

Virtual Textured Hybrid Bearings

44th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology - September 4-6, 2017, Lyon, France VIRTUAL TEXTURED HYBRID BEARINGS Stefan G.E. Lampaert a*, Ron A.J. van Ostayen a *[email protected] a Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands Magnetorheology; Electrorheology; Hydrostatic bearing; Virtual texturing; Tribotronics INTRODUCTION In order to achieve low wear and friction, full film lubrication is desirable since this guarantees no contact between the bearing surfaces and so no wear. Full film lubricated bearings can be divided into hydrodynamic (HD) bearings and hydrostatic (HS) bearings. HD bearings are a low cost and low friction solution, however they require a sufficiently high speed to ensure zero mechanical contact between the moving surfaces. HS bearings exhibit zero contact at all operating speeds but have the drawback that they rely on a failure sensitive supply pump (Fig.1). Hybrid bearings combine the advantages of both bearing types, but their design is regularly a Fig. 1. Conventional HS bearing: resistance is increased locally trade-off between both operating regimes [1], as the surface by decreasing the bearing gap h. texturing needed for an optimal HS working regime decreases the efficiency of the HD working regime and vice versa. VIRTUAL TEXTURED JOURNAL BEARING This work presents a new type of hybrid bearing that does not compromise between the HD and HS working regimes. This so called “Virtual Textured Bearing” uses a local variation of the viscosity of the lubricant to modify the local resistance (Fig 2.). This can be realized with for example a magnetorheological fluid (MRF) or an electrorheological fluid (ERF). This furthermore facilitates active control of the bearing as is done in [2]. The absence of physical texturing results in a conventional Fig. 2. Virtual textured HS bearing: resistance is increased converging wedge that better facilitates HD lubrication (Fig. 3). locally by using an MRF and a local magnetic field. Supply inlets in the journal together with virtual texturing adds HS lubrication to the bearing operation. This yields a bearing Fig. 3. Virtual textured journal system that predominantly uses HS lubrication at low speeds bearing: A smooth bore and naturally switches to efficient HD lubrication at high journal bearing is supplied speeds. through the holes with a MR- lubricant. Virtual recesses are REFERENCES created by the magnetic field [1] K. L. Wasson and A. H. Slocum, “Integrated Shaft created in the dark zones. In Selfcompensating Hydrostatic Bearing,” 1997. operation both hydrostatic and [2] J. Hesselbach and C. Abel-Keilhack, “Active hydrodynamic load carrying hydrostatic bearing with magnetorheological fluid,” J. capacity is generated. Appl. Phys., vol. 93, no. 10, pp. 8441–8443, 2003. .

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