The paper expands the work by Kinnear and Weston[1] on squeeze film bearing design to the general case and compares the revised methodology with classical bearing design[2,3,4] and hybrid bearing design[5]. The analysis, which employs a partial differentiation of the Poisseuille and Hagen-Poiseuille bearing flow equations, enables a mathematical model for the bearing squeeze film to be develope...

The aim of study is to apply the condition monitoring technique in the journal bearing to detect the faults at an early stage and to prevent the occurrence of catastrophic failures. This study presents fault diagnosis on journal bearing through the experimental investigation at high rotational speed. Journal bearings are widely used to support the shaft of industrial machinery with heavy loads,...

A rotor-journal bearing system for a twin rotary compressor has been nlliDerically analyzed to estimate the reliability and to optimize the bearing design. For rotary compressors, large dynamic loads act on the rotor. They are unbalanced forces due to eccentric rotation parts and gas forces induced by the difference in pressure between compression and suction gases. In such a case, the rotor-jo...

CFCs, HCFCs are stipulated to phase out, and other alternative refrigerants like R134a, are also constrained as a result from their high GWP values. CO2 as a natural working fluid now is used in reciprocating compressors due to its uniquely beneficial properties (ozone depletion potential, ODP=0; global warming potential, GWP =1). However, one remarkable characteristics of the CO2 reciprocating...