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Characteristics of tapered roller bearings in relation to roller profiles

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This paper investigated the characteristics of tapered roller bearings (TRBs) including stiffness, displacement and contact pressure distribution in rollers, with consideration of the effects of roller profile and axial preload. To this end, a comprehensive modeling and computation procedure for TRBs was presented. In this paper, TRBs with four typical roller profiles were examined: straight roller, and three modified rollers such as chamfered, fully-crowned, and partially-crowned rollers. Simulation results showed that, under low axial preload, straight rollers provide higher stiffness and lower contact pressure than those of modified rollers owing to the larger contact area between roller and raceways. Under high axial preload, TRBs with modified rollers exhibited an improvement in reduction of peak contact pressure in rollers. Stiffnesses of TRBs were almost independent of roller profile when high preload is applied. Among the investigated roller profiles, the most effective pressure reduction was achieved with the partially-crowned roller.

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  1. Department of Mechatronics, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, 61, Daehak-ro, Gumi, 730-701, Korea

    Van-Canh Tong & Seong-Wook Hong

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Van-Canh Tong received his M.S Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam in 2011. He is currently a Ph.D. student of Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea.

Seong-Wook Hong received his M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from KAIST, Korea, in 1985 and 1989, respectively. He is a professor in the Department of Mechatronics of Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea. His current research interests include command shaping for positioning systems, bearing dynamics, spindle dynamics, vibration control, and structural vibration analysis for mechanical systems.

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Tong, VC., Hong, SW. Characteristics of tapered roller bearings in relation to roller profiles. J Mech Sci Technol 29, 2913–2919 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-015-0622-z

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