Here’s a tough mandate to solve. In an industrial setting, a set of bearings can be porous and packed with grease. Shifting this scenario so that the mountings are situated inside a food-grade equipment frame, those normally beneficial features assume application-deleterious proportions. The regulations protecting the equipment can’t permit just any old grease type, nor […]
Far from straightforward, it’s not easy to track bearing damage. As one effective defect localizing solution, engineers use condition-based monitoring technology to monitor particular performance-biased subsets. Then, by applying some form of amplitude demodulation assessment, the condition monitoring techniques reveal behavioural information about a chosen bearing’s functions. Of some problem here, this is a mathematically […]
This post is intended as a guide to roller bearing overheating causes. One easy enough causative factor to spot would be a low lubrication level. There’s no oily film between the rollers, so the fast-moving bearing components generate heat as they rub against one another. It’s a pity that every overheating gremlin can’t be picked […]
Rolling point fatigue, as the term implies, occurs as a consequence of point contact stress. With these focal points rubbing together, material wear is inevitable. The hardness-to-malleability coefficient of the bearing alloy counteracts the effect, at least as much as is possible, but there comes a moment when those stress-focusing contact regions can no longer […]
Equipment shafts, they can only go so fast. Beyond that point, the rolling elements on each shaft end start to cook. It seems like the laws of physics have something to say about an out-of-control rotating bearing. Bound by those laws, a speed and its additional friction causes a subsequent increase in operational heat. Left […]