Study on elastohydrodynamic lubrication performance of double-layer composite water-lubricated bearings

Double-layer composite water-lubricated bearing is a new type of water-lubricated bearing which can integrate the good damping performance of low elastic under-layer bush and good tribological performance of plastic layer bush. This paper analyzes its elastohydrodynamic lubrication performance by fluid-structure interaction (FSI) method, and studies the effects of eccentricity ratio, rotational speed, elastic modulus distribution and thickness distribution of bearing bush on its lubrication performance. Results show that the lubrication performance of double-layer bearing is more like that of plastic bearing. As rotational speed and eccentricity ratio increase, the maximum water film pressure, the load carrying capacity and the maximum bush deformation increase significantly. As the elastic modulus of the low elastic under-layer bush decreases, the total bush deformation increases significantly, but the load carrying capacity decreases slightly. The bush thickness distribution influences the deformation distribution of both low elastic under-layer bush and plastic layer bush, but have little impact on the total bush deformation and bearing lubrication performance.

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This paper analyzes the elastohydrodynamic lubrication performance of double-layer composite water-lubricated bearing by fluid-structure interaction (FSI) method, and studies the effects of eccentricity ratio, rotational speed, elastic modulus distribution, and thickness distribution of bearing bush on its lubrication performance. The results show that the lubrication performance of the double-layer bearing is more similar to that of a plastic bearing. The maximum water film pressure, load carrying capacity, and bush deformation increase significantly with the increase of rotational speed and eccentricity ratio. The elastic modulus distribution and thickness distribution have an impact on the deformation distribution of the bush but have little effect on the total bush deformation and bearing lubrication performance.