Year: 2019
How Improper Mounting Can Cause Premature Bearing Failure
Blog | July 16th, 2019Generally, the inner ring of a rotating bearing locks tightly against a shaft so that the two mechanical parts can spin as one. In order to accommodate this operation, massive amounts of pressure force a slightly smaller ring opening onto a slightly larger shaft circumference. That’s how press fit fastening works. Regrettably, this high-tolerance press […]
How Load-carrying Capacity Affects Bearing Service Life
Blog | July 1st, 2019Rolling elements, just like human beings, are expected to handle stress. Now, people do succeed in dealing with such pressures, at least to some degree or other. For bearings, it’s a little harder. They can’t adapt, not easily. No, to properly deal with load-induced stress, their carrying capacity should be determined before they’re pressed into […]
Food-grade Bearings: Proper Material Selection for Health and Safety
Blog | June 17th, 2019Here’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 […]
Amplitude Demodulation for Condition Monitoring of Bearings
Blog | June 2nd, 2019Far 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 […]
Common Causes and Remedies for Roller Bearing Overheating
Blog | May 15th, 2019This 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 […]