Papers by Author: Xue Bing Yang

Abstract: The dynamic characteristics of a hydrostatic and hydrodynamic journal bearing with two arrays of eight holes have been investigated theoretically by the three-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models with respect to equilibrium position. The various dynamic coefficients for design parameters, such as orifice diameter, length to diameter ratio, eccentricity ratio, supply pressure, and rotational speed, are analyzed systematically under the action of displacement disturbance and velocity disturbance which are considered by the User Definition Function (UDF) programs. Results show that the dynamic coefficients greatly affected by design parameters. The cross stiffness coefficients increase rapidly more than direct stiffness with an increase of length to diameter ratio and rotational speed. Conversely, the direct stiffness coefficients are larger than cross stiffness with an increase of supply pressure and eccentricity ratio. It indicates that the journal bearing with two arrays of eight holes is suitable for their applications to small diameter grinding spindle by the means of optimizing the operating parameters and the structural parameters in order to obtain a better dynamic characteristic.

Abstract: Multi-array hole-entry hybrid journal bearings have been widely applied to support the high speed precision machine tool spindle with small diameter used in high efficient inner grinding, due to their prominent properties of high rotation accuracy, high dynamic stiffness, high vibration damping and long life. But the imperfection of the hybrid bearing is the significant temperature rising in the oil film on the condition of high speed operation, which brings about the sharp decreasing of load capacity and the larger thermal deformation of the bushing that cause the bearing failure immediately. In this paper, CFD analysis of the temperature fields of the multi-array hole-entry hybrid journal bearing with various bearing construction parameters and operation parameters are presented. According to the simulation results, the temperature rising in the oil film can be controlled efficiently by optimizing the matching of the bearing construction parameters and operation parameters and excellent characteristics of load capacity and static stiffness have been obtained simultaneously.

Abstract: Water-lubricated hybrid journal bearings have been developed to support the ultra-precision machine tool spindles, due to the prominent properties of high load capacity and stiffness, high rotational accuracy, excellent thermal stability, low power consuming and environmental friendliness. Quasi-analytical procedures are deduced to present a relatively easy and rapid method for estimating of the parameters of the water-lubricated hybrid bearings without resorting to complex full numerical calculation. The procedures are based on the lumped resistance method, which have been extended to the situation dominated by the turbulence and inertia effects. The results show good agreement with the full numerical solution, especially when the bearing operating at moderate eccentricities. The procedures can be taken as a real time analytical tool for parametric study and preliminary engineering design of water-lubricated hybrid journal bearings.