Mechanical Engineering

Rolling-contact Bearings
Overview and Expectations for this week

- Bearing Type

- Bearing life

- Mounting of Bearing

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Terminology of RC-Bearing

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Bearing Terminology
Tapered Bore:
Seat the bearing onto a tapered shaft or to accommodate a tapered
sleeve which can be used to fix a bearing to a shaft.

Shields or Seals:
Between the inner and outer rings to capture lubricating grease
around the balls and prevent intrusion of contaminants

Self Aligning:
The inner ring can pivot so that the bore of the inner ring is not
aligned with that of the outer ring, this accommodates shafts which
are not perfectly aligned (concentric) with the outer ring of the
bearing.

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Bearing Terminology

Pure Radial and Pure Axial Loads:

This indicates a bearings ability to sustain each of these kinds of
loads in isolation.

Combined Loads:
Ability to sustain a radial and an axial load at the same time.

Moment Load:
This indicates a bearings ability to support a moment at right
angles to the longitudinal shaft axis.

High Running Accuracy and High Stiffness:

Some applications require a bearing which maintains the center
of rotation of the shaft with extreme accuracy even when large
loads are applied.
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Bearing Terminology
Locating:
If the inner ring of a bearing is axially locked to the shaft and
the outer ring is axially locked to the housing, then the bearing
is said to be locating since it prevents the shaft from moving
axially w.r.t.the housing.

Non-Locating:
If either the inner or outer ring is not axially locked, the bearing
cannot prevent the axial movement of the shaft.

Axial Displacement:
In some bearings, the inner and outer races are free to move
axially w.r.t. each other. This kind of bearing cannot be used in a
locating arrangement.

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Types of RC-Bearing

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Types of RC-Bearing

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Deep Groove Ball Bearing General

-Simple, non-separable,
suitable for high and
even very high speeds

-Robust in operation,
requiring little
maintenance.

-Radial loads and axial

loads in both directions

Max axial load =0.25Co ~

0.5Co
Co, Basic Static Load rating, (deformation of 0.0001d)

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Deep Groove Ball Bearing General

Contact surface geometry

Assembly steps
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Deep Groove Ball Bearing General

Sealing unit

Sealed bearing Snap ring

separator

ICOSTM oil
sealed bearing Bearing with snap
unit ring groove and
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Deep Groove Ball Bearing General
single row deep groove ball bearings with filling slots
Filling slot
in outer ring
with a separator
with filling slots
in both the
inner and outer
ring
have no separator

- Enabling more and larger balls to be incorporated than

in standard deep groove ball bearings.
- Have a higher radial load carrying capacity
- Their axial load carrying capacity is small.
- Lower operate speeds.
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Deep Groove Ball Bearing General
Double row deep groove ball bearings

- Deep uninterrupted raceways and high conformity

between the balls and raceways.

- Able to carry axial loads acting in both directions

in addition to radial loads.

- Suitable for bearing arrangements where the

load carrying capacity of a single row bearing is inadequate.

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Angular Contact Ball Bearing
single row angular contact ball bearings

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Angular Contact Ball Bearing

double row angular four-point contact

contact ball bearings ball bearings

Paired angular
contact ball bearings

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Self-aligning ball bearings

Open bearings
of the basic
design Sealed bearings

Open bearings
with an extended
inner ring

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Single direction thrust ball bearings

flat seating surface sphered seating surface

Consist of
a shaft washer,
a housing washer
a ball and cage thrust assembly

-separable
a sphered housing washer -simple mounting
used with a sphered seating washer

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Double direction thrust ball bearings

separator housing washers

s
Consist of
one shaft washer seating washers
two housing washers
two ball and separator thrust assemblies
- separable
- simple mounting
- accommodate axial loads acting in both directions
must not be subjected to radial load
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Cylindrical roller bearings

-Axial load is governed by

load capability of sliding
contact on flange, a
function of lubricant,
operating temp. and heat
removal.

single row cylindrical roller bearings,

caged

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Cylindrical roller bearings

double row cylindrical roller bearings, caged

multi-row cylindrical roller bearings, caged

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Tapered roller bearings
Cone

Outer
ring

- particularly suitable for

the accommodation of
combined (radial and
axial) loads.

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Tapered roller bearings

Paired single
Double row taper roller
row taper roller
bearings
bearings

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Thrust Tapered roller bearings

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