Rolling 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 […]
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 […]