BEARINGS
Bearings
• Bearings are machine elements that allow components to move with respect to
each other.
• There are a wide range of bearing types, the selection of the right bearing
suitable for the application and specify it is job of the design engineer
• Fluid bearings are frequently used in high load, high speed or high precision
applications where ordinary ball bearings would have short life or cause high
noise and vibration
Bearings Plain Brush Deep groove
Fluid Hydro
Journal Static Self aligning
Bearings
Fluid Hydro
Dynamic Angular
contact Cyl roller
Rotation
Bearings
Thrust bearing Spherical roller
Ball Bearings Tapered roll
Rolling Contact
Needle Roller
Roller Bearings
Bearings selection ensures that:
• The bearing fits into a space which is available in the mechanical design
• The bearing can take the load as a result of being used in that application
• The bearing should be able to withstand environmental conditions
• The bearing runs fora specific number of cycles before losing its performance
• The bearing can run at the operating speed without problems
• The bearing can be easily assembled and dissembled
• The frictional properties are sufficient for application
• Lubrication
• The bearing takes care of possible misalignments and deflections
Factors which drives the bearing
selection
Application Requirement
• Loads
• Speed
• Package space
• Life required
• Assembly and disassembly
• Friction
Factors which drives the bearing
selection
Bearing type Fits, tolerance Lubrication, Noise and
and size and precision sealing vibration
- Selecting type
- Interference
and size based - Affect of
fits with shaft
on load
- Position vibration on
- Life calculation
- Permissable control performance
- Preload - Sensitivity to
loads
- Dimentional vibration and
- With cage or
stability noise
without
Bearing
- Process of Selection
mount and
dismount
- Level of - Extent of
difficulty Misalignment
- Detriment to Operating allowed
performance temperature - Extent of
Assembly, and other deflection
mounting Misalignment,
environmental Material allowed
provision deflections
factors
Ball Bearing Construction
1. Outer raceway groove / outer ring
2. Ball
3. Cage (to hold the balls together)
4. Inner raceway groove / inner ring
5. seal
Loads on a bearing
Deep Groove Ball Bearing
• Most Commonly
used
• Easy to maintain
• Connot handle
heavy axial load
Angular Contact Ball Bearing
• Contact line is not
normal to shaft axis
• Forces are
transferred are at an
angle
• Best suitable for
combined loads and
high axial forces
along with high
radial forces
Self Centering Ball Bearing
• Double row of balls
with a special feature of
a spherical outer ring
raceway
• Allows the inner
raceway to swivel
within and align with
change in angles of
shaft
• When misalignment can
be a problem in housing
Thrust Ball Bearing
• Operate solely on thrust
forces or axial forces
• Loacate the shaft in
axial in one direction
• Cannot take radial loads
Regular Cylindrical Bearing
• Optimizes distribution
of stress due to more
contact area but also
higher friction
• Very high radial load
rating as compared to
ball bearing
Needle roller Bearing
• Special type of cylindrical
roller bearings
• Long thin rollers with ratio
of diameter to length as
1:3 to 1:10
• Only suitable for radial
forces
• Axial forces aren’t taken
easily
• Best used when radial
space is constrained
• lightweight
Tapered roller Bearing
• Tapered raceway and
roller has variation in
diameter
• The contact angle is not
normal hence the setup
can take up heavy radial
and axial loads.
Spherical roller Bearing
• Work on the same
principle as self aligning
bearing
• They use spherical rollers
instead of ball with higher
load bearing capability
• Can work with
misalignment
Thrust roller Bearing
• Can take higher amount of
thrust load than ball
bearing
• Minimal amount of radial
load
