Abstract
The paper presents an analysis for an infinitely wide hydrodynamic journal bearing with artificially designed boundary slippage at the stationary journal surface in the bearing inlet zone. The load-carrying capacity, friction coefficient, attitude angle, shear stress and slipping velocity distributions of the bearing are derived. The results show that the performance of the hydrodynamic journal bearing with modest and small eccentricity ratios can be significantly improved by the designed boundary slippage. When the boundary slippage is widely designed and the contact-fluid interfacial shear strength at the slipping journal surface is low, the carried load of this kind of bearing can be increased nearly by 100 % while its friction coefficient can be reduced by more than 60 %, because of the boundary slippage. The results indicate great application values of the artificial boundary slippage in this kind of hydrodynamic journal bearing.
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Abbreviations
- c :
-
Clearance, R − r
- DU :
-
Dimensionless interfacial slipping velocity at the journal surface
- e :
-
Eccentricity of the bearing
- f :
-
Friction coefficient
- F x :
-
Force component in the x axis direction of the hydrodynamic fluid acting on the shaft per unit contact width
- F y :
-
Force component in the y axis direction of the hydrodynamic fluid acting on the shaft per unit contact width
- F f,h :
-
Friction force at the journal surface per unit contact width
- F f,s :
-
Friction force at the shaft surface per unit contact width
- \( \bar{F}_{f,h} \) :
-
Dimensionless friction force at the journal surface per unit contact width
- \( \bar{F}_{f,s} \) :
-
Dimensionless friction force at the shaft surface per unit contact width
- \( \bar{F}_{x} \) :
-
Dimensionless force component in the x axis direction of the hydrodynamic fluid acting on the shaft per unit contact width
- \( \bar{F}_{y} \) :
-
Dimensionless force component in the y axis direction of the hydrodynamic fluid acting on the shaft per unit contact width
- I 1, I 2, I 3, I 4, I 5, I 6, I 7, I 8 :
-
Respectively functions listed in the Appendix
- k τ :
-
Dimensionless interfacial shear strength, τ sa c/(uη)
- p :
-
Fluid film pressure
- p slip,max :
-
Maximum fluid film pressure in the present slippage bearing
- P :
-
Dimensionless fluid film pressure
- P 1,slip :
-
Dimensionless pressure at the boundary between the “A” and “B” subzones in the present slippage bearing
- q v :
-
Volume flow rate of the fluid through the bearing per unit contact width
- Q v :
-
Dimensionless volume flow rate of the fluid through the bearing per unit contact width
- r :
-
Shaft radius
- R :
-
Journal radius
- u :
-
Circumferential speed of the shaft
- w :
-
Load per unit contact width of the bearing
- W :
-
Dimensionless carried load per unit contact width of the bearing
- x, y :
-
Coordinates
- ɛ :
-
Eccentricity ratio, e/c
- ϕ :
-
Angular coordinate
- ϕ slip :
-
Envelope angle of the boundary slippage area, Fig. 1
- ϕ 0 :
-
Angular coordinate of the location where the maximum lubricant film pressure occurs, Fig. 1
- θ :
-
Sommerfeld transformation angle from ϕ
- θ slip :
-
Sommerfeld transformation angle from ϕ slip
- θ 0 :
-
Sommerfeld transformation angle from ϕ 0
- τ sa :
-
Contact-fluid interfacial shear strength at the journal surface in the slippage lubricated zone
- η :
-
Fluid viscosity
- τ :
-
Shear stress
- \( \bar{\tau } \) :
-
Dimensionless shear stress
- λ 0, λ 1, λ 2 :
-
Dimensionless parameters
- β :
-
Angle, Eq. (25)
- γ :
-
Attitude angle of the bearing
- Δu :
-
Interfacial slipping velocity at the journal surface
- conv:
-
For the conventional bearing
- h:
-
At the journal surface
- s:
-
At the shaft surface
- slip:
-
For the present slippage bearing
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The author would like to express thanks to the project from Changzhou Science and Technology Bureau (CJ20120033) and the Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Provincial Education Bureau.
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Zhang, Y. An improved hydrodynamic journal bearing with the boundary slippage. Meccanica 50, 25–38 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-014-0064-1
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