A new approach for including cage flexibility in dynamic bearing models by using combined explicit finite and discrete element methods

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Ashtekar, Ankur ^a   Sadeghi, Farshid ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bearing dynamics; cage flexibility; discrete elements; finite elements

Indexed keywords

BEARING DYNAMICS; CAGE DYNAMICS; CAGE FLEXIBILITY; CENTRIFUGAL FORCES; COMBINED MODEL; CONTACT FORCES; DISCRETE ELEMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXPLICIT FINITE ELEMENTS; FATIGUE FAILURES; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; HIGH-SPEED OPERATION; NOVEL ALGORITHM; OPERATING CONDITION; OUTER RACES; RAIL SECTIONS; SHAFT MISALIGNMENT; SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM; STRESS CYCLE; TIME STEP;

ALGORITHMS; ALIGNMENT; BALL BEARINGS; CENTRIFUGATION; DEFORMATION; DYNAMICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84866062458     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: 15288897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4007348     Document Type: Article

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