Experiments and models for the thermal response of railroad tapered-roller bearings

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 51, Issue 25-26, 2008, Pages 5794-5803

  Tarawneh, Constantine M ^a   Cole, Kevin D ^b   Wilson, Brent M ^b   Alnaimat, Fadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bearing thermal models; Bearing thermal response; Heat dissipation paths; Heat transfer coefficient estimation

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); EXPERIMENTS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; HEATING EQUIPMENT; INDUSTRIAL RAILROADS; METAL RECOVERY; RAILROADS; ROLLER BEARINGS; ROLLERS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

AND MODELS; BEARING THERMAL MODELS; BEARING THERMAL RESPONSE; FIRST ORDERS; HEAT DISSIPATION PATHS; HEAT SOURCES; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT ESTIMATION; RAILROAD INDUSTRIES; TEMPERATURE HISTORIES; THERMAL MODELS; THERMAL RESPONSES; TRANSFER PATHS;

RAILROAD BEARINGS;

EID: 55549111580     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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