Ebook: Hydrodynamic Lubrication

Hydrodynamic lubrication plays an important role in mechanical engineering, although not very many books have been published on the subject. This book was written with graduate students, researchers and designers in view.

The first four chapters are preparations for the following five chapters, where several most important subjects in hydrodynamic lubrication are discussed in detail, based on the author’s own researches. Examples are oil whip (stability of rotating shafts), foil bearings in connection with magnetic tape storages, squeeze film between rigid surfaces and visco-elastic surfaces, theoretical and experimental analyses of temperature rise in bearings, those of turbulent lubricating film using the k-epsilon model.

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Hydrodynamic lubrication plays an important role in mechanical engineering, although not very many books have been published on the subject. This book was written with graduate students, researchers and designers in view.

The first four chapters are preparations for the following five chapters, where several important subjects in hydrodynamic lubrication are discussed in detail, based on the author’s own researches.

Examples are oil whip (stability of rotating shafts), foil bearings in connection with magnetic tape storages, squeeze film between rigid surfaces and visco-elastic surfaces, theoretical and experimental analyses of temperature rise in bearings, those of turbulent lubricating film using the k-epsilon model.

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Hydrodynamic lubrication plays an important role in mechanical engineering, although not very many books have been published on the subject. This book was written with graduate students, researchers and designers in view.

The first four chapters are preparations for the following five chapters, where several important subjects in hydrodynamic lubrication are discussed in detail, based on the author’s own researches.

Examples are oil whip (stability of rotating shafts), foil bearings in connection with magnetic tape storages, squeeze film between rigid surfaces and visco-elastic surfaces, theoretical and experimental analyses of temperature rise in bearings, those of turbulent lubricating film using the k-epsilon model.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Friction, Wear, and Lubrication....Pages 1-8
Foundations of Hydrodynamic Lubrication....Pages 9-22
Fundamentals of Journal Bearings....Pages 23-46
Fundamentals of Thrust Bearings....Pages 47-61
Stability of a Rotating Shaft — Oil Whip....Pages 63-117
Foil Bearings....Pages 119-136
Squeeze Film....Pages 137-160
Heat Generation and Temperature Rise....Pages 161-195
Turbulent Lubrication....Pages 197-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-231

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Hydrodynamic lubrication plays an important role in mechanical engineering, although not very many books have been published on the subject. This book was written with graduate students, researchers and designers in view.

The first four chapters are preparations for the following five chapters, where several important subjects in hydrodynamic lubrication are discussed in detail, based on the author’s own researches.

Examples are oil whip (stability of rotating shafts), foil bearings in connection with magnetic tape storages, squeeze film between rigid surfaces and visco-elastic surfaces, theoretical and experimental analyses of temperature rise in bearings, those of turbulent lubricating film using the k-epsilon model.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Friction, Wear, and Lubrication....Pages 1-8
Foundations of Hydrodynamic Lubrication....Pages 9-22
Fundamentals of Journal Bearings....Pages 23-46
Fundamentals of Thrust Bearings....Pages 47-61
Stability of a Rotating Shaft — Oil Whip....Pages 63-117
Foil Bearings....Pages 119-136
Squeeze Film....Pages 137-160
Heat Generation and Temperature Rise....Pages 161-195
Turbulent Lubrication....Pages 197-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-231
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