ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION OF LOGARITHMIC PROFILE ROLLER CONTACTS

An account of numerical solutions to the isothermal and flooded elastohydrodynamic lubrication(EHL)of a logarithmic profile roller,which is rolling over a flat plane,is given The analysis takes account of sideways flow of lubricant in the inlet region of the contact When the results are presented in suitable non dimensional groups,it is shown that more uniformly pressure and shape of the film distributing in axial direction is taken place under light loading As the increase of the load,the end closure is displayed and the oil pressure rises sharply at the ends The seal action formed by the end closure makes the film thickness a little And the minimum film thickness is transferred from the central to the ends and the value is reduced rapidly As the increase of the speed,the end closure becomes much serious The optimum crowning value obtained in EHL state is larger than the design value obtained in elastostatic contact state for the same working conditions In order to verify the correctness of theory,optical interferometry is applied to measure the oil film thickness between a logarithmic profiled roller and a glass plate under pure rolling conditions It is found the agreement between numerical solutions and experiments is very good.

Profiled Cylindrical Roller Design in Consideration of Grinding Undercut Effect

In this paper, the effect of the grinding undercut of the raceways on the longitudinal pressure distribution of the profiled rollers, which are the most popular axial profile employed by the bearing manufacturers, was discussed. Based on the profiled roller geometrical equations and numerical calculation of three dimensional elastic contact problems of finite length, a new numerical method for calculating the crown drop evaluation considering the effect of grinding undercut was used. The analyses of two structure case, that roller length is greater or less than raceway width, were carried out and compared with each other. The Results show that the width of grinding undercut must be considered in determining the crown drop of rollers.

An explicit solution to a three-dimensional wedge problem considering two edges effect

The paper presents an explicit matrix algorithm to solve the problem of an elastic wedge with three loaded surfaces.The algorithm makes use of a recently published concept of transformation matrix,by which the original surface loads are converted to equivalent loads in half-space.The three loaded edges are considered simultaneously.The developed algorithm is used to study the effects of two free edges of a steel block and tapered rollers with different contact angles.The two load-free edges can substantially increase deformation if the two edges are close in distance.The results of the tapered roller simulation show that deformation is considerably sensitive to the contact angle of the tapered roller.The largest deformation appears at the big end of the roller.Furthermore,empirical formulae for correction factors for the calculation of block or quarter-space deformation based on half-space solutions are summarized.