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MECHANIKA
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 252-257Publisher
KAUNAS UNIV TECHNOL
DOI: 10.5755/j02.mech.32384
Keywords
gas-lubricated parallel slider bearings; micro-grooves; cross-section shape; lubrication performance
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This study investigated the influence of grooving parameters and micro-groove cross-section shape on the lubrication performance of partially micro-grooved gas-lubricated parallel slider bearings. The multi-grid finite element method was adopted to obtain the pressure distribution of the bearings. The results showed that the grooving parameters and micro-groove cross-section shape significantly affected the hydrodynamic pressure, and adopting appropriate parameters can enhance the lubrication performance.
The influence of grooving parameters and micro-groove cross-section shape on the lubrication performance of partially micro-grooved gas-lubricated parallel slider bearings is investigated in the present study. The solution procedure for the multi-grid finite element method is that the algebraic equations formed by the finite element meth-od are in turn smoothed by the interpolation from the coarse grid to the fine grid and the restriction from the fine grid to the coarse grid. By adopting the multi-grid finite element method, the pressure distribution of partially mi-cro-grooved gas-lubricated parallel slider bearings is ob-tained. The grooving parameters are optimized to obtain the maximum average pressure for different micro-groove cross-section shapes. The results show that the orientation angle of the micro-grooves, depth of the micro-grooves, width of the micro-grooves, area density of the micro -grooves, micro-grooved fraction, and cross-section shape of the micro-grooves have an important influence on the hydrodynamic pressure of partially micro-grooved gas -lubricated parallel slider bearings. The results of this study demonstrate that the lubrication performance of partially micro-grooved gas-lubricated parallel slider bearings can be obviously enhanced by adopting the appropriate groov-ing parameters and micro-groove cross-shape. The results of this study are beneficial for the design of partially mi-cro-grooved gas-lubricated parallel slider bearings.
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