高速主轴轴承油气润滑的应用试验

高速主轴轴承油气润滑技术在国外一些工业化国家早已得到广泛应用。本文对高速主轴轴承油气润滑技术的应用进行了比较系统的试验研究，并与油雾润滑进行了对比应用试验。     

The Performance of a Hybrid Ceramic Ball Bearing Under High Speed Conditions with the Under-Race Lubrication Method

Large bore (150 mm) hybrid ceramic ball bearings and all-M50 steel bearings were tested with under-race lubrication to compare the heat generation and the temperature rise at speeds up to 2.25 million DN. Furthermore, oil shut-off tests were carried out with both bearings over 2.25 million DN.

The experimental results of the heat generation for both bearings were nearly the same at an axial load of 19.6 kN. at 34.3 kN, the heat generation of the hybrid bearing was lower than that of the M50 steel bearing at low speed. The heat generation of both bearings gradually approached each other with increasing speed and became nearly equal at a speed of 15,000 rpm. The survivability of the hybrid bearing in the oil shut-off test was superior to that of the M50 bearing. These experimental results were explained by the calculation results using a computer analysis software which simulates the kinematics and the performance of ball bearings.     

Grease Lubrication of Ultra-High Speed Rolling Contact Bearings

The failure mechanisms of grease lubricated ball bearings operating in the DN range from 1.0 × 10⁶ to 2.0 × 10⁶ was studied. A new rig capable of controlled operation of 20 and 25 mm ball bearings at speeds up to 100,000 rpm is described. Ball separator design seems to be a very important factor and a lightweight single piece machines outer ring controlled ball separator appeared to give the best results. In general, mechanical factors such as vibration, bearing design, bearing fit and tolerances, dynamic balance, load alignment, etc., have more influence on the performance of the bearings studied than gross grease variables. Under ideal conditions it is indicated that adequate lubrication with grease is possible for periods over 100 hours. However, under the test conditions generally in existence in the ultra high speed rigs grease lubrication was only adequate for very short periods.

Grease compositional factors leading to better performance are smooth texture and hard consistency. At the temperature investigated diester type oil was slightly superior to mineral oil and greatly superior to silicone oil.     

Comparison of the Dynamic Behavior and Lubrication Characteristics of a Reciprocating Compressor Crankshaft in Both Finite and Short Bearing Models©

The compression force of refrigerant gas, the viscous and inertial force of the piston, and the centrifugal force of balancer weight induce rotating whirl of the crankshaft in a small reciprocating compressor. It is necessary to develop an analytical model for the accurate prediction of dynamic behavior of the compressor mechanism having coupled characteristics between the piston and crankshaft. The reciprocating compression mechanism is dynamically modeled by considering the viscous frictional force of a piston and the variation in the contact length of the piston-cylinder system, and then numerical analysis is performed for the coupled dynamic behavior of the piston and crankshaft. For the accurate predictions of the dynamic behavior and characteristics of lubrication of the crankshaft-journal bearing system, a finite bearing model is adopted. In addition, the dynamic trajectory and characteristics of lubrication of the crankshaft such as power consumption and oil leakage are compared between the finite bearing model and the short bearing approximation. The influences of the variation in the radial clearance of the journal bearings, lubricant viscosity, and mass and mass moment of inertia of the piston and connecting rod on the dynamic behavior and characteristics of lubrication such as power consumption and oil leakage are investigated.     

Bearing Fatigue Life Tests of Two Advanced Base Oils for Space Applications Under Vacuum and Atmospheric Environments

Four series of rolling-element bearing fatigue tests were conducted with 51104 size thrust ball bearings with three balls made from SUJ2 (AISI 52100) steel lubricated with two advanced synthetic base oils used for space applications. The test lubricants were perfluoropolyether (PFPE) and multiply alkyated cyclopentane (MAC). Each oil was tested with bearings under vacuum and atmospheric environments. The bearings were tested at a maximum Hertzian stress of 4 GPa on the inner and outer races. The outer race was rotated at a speed of 250 rpm. A pool lubrication system was used. Fresh lubricant was used for each test bearing. Testing in vacuum conditions was at 5 × 10^?2 Pa. The test oils were analyzed to determine whether changes occurred as a result of operating in air and in a vacuum. In a vacuum environment, the PFPE 815Z oil exhibited a longer fatigue life than the MAC 2001A oil. However, in an air environment, the MAC 2001A oil had a longer L₁₀ fatigue life than the PFPE 815Z oil. The fatigue life tests of PFPE 815Z oil in vacuum resulted in a longer L₁₀ life than when tested in an air environment. In an air environment, hydrogen fluoride was generated in the bearing tests with the PFPE 815Z oils. Under vacuum conditions, hydrogen fluoride was not generated with the PFPE 815Z oil, resulting in longer bearing fatigue lives. The fatigue life tests of MAC 2001A oil in a vacuum resulted in shorter L₁₀ fatigue life than in an air environment. The shorter life was attributed to the lower elastohydrodynamic oil film formation with the MAC 2001A oil because of a higher operating temperature and decomposition of the oil in vacuum.     

Lubrication Analysis of a Connecting-Rod Bearing in a High-Speed Engine. Part II: Lubrication Performance Evaluation for Non-Circular Bearings

In this article a numerical investigation of a connecting rod bearing operating at 6,500 rpm is performed. This is a companion to an earlier article that took into account the effects of the inertial force and the variable bolt tension force, which are considered to be the principal factors that affect the connecting rod bearing lubrication characteristics of an engine running at high speed. It was found that a thinner minimum oil film and a larger peak hydrodynamic pressure are predicted in a deformed connecting rod bearing than in a rigid connecting rod bearing. Multi-peaked hydrodynamic pressure was found to appear as well because of two or more converging-diverging film regions.     

高速电主轴的油气润滑

在高转速轴承寿命试验机电主轴中选用了油气润滑方式,实施稳定的微量油润滑.通过实验确认,DMN达150mm.r/min,解决了油雾润滑污染环境的问题,使环境质量良好。     

滚动轴承润滑方式的分类与选择

依据润滑剂供给轴承时的外观状态将润滑方式分为脂、油两大类润滑方式.并进一步将润滑油润滑分为油浴润滑、连续油流润滑、断续油流润滑、滴油润滑、弥散微滴与油雾润滑五种类型。对各种润滑方式的性能特点进行了分析,并对技术经济指示进行了综合评价,从而给出了滚动轴承润滑方式的选择原则。     

A New Form of Rolling Contact Damage in Grease-Lubricated,Deep-Groove Ball Bearings

A new form of rolling contact damage was discovered in the fatigue tests of series 6206 deep groove ball bearings under pure radial load with grease lubrication. The appearance of the damage reveals a few cracks at right angles to the rolling direction of the ball, along with the formation of a dent about 20 μ m deep in the raceway surface. This is found to occur only on the stationary outer ring raceway and the ball surface and is distributed widely within the load zone. Furthermore, under the raceway surface several cracks propagating into the substrate at an angle of about 60-80 degrees relative to the raceway surface are observed not only under the damage site but also in other nearby locations. Only the cracks at the damage position open up to the surface. The grease used for the test contained a lithium complex thickener with mineral oil as the base oil with a kinematic viscosity of 141 mm²/s at 40°C. On the test bearings two pure radial load levels of 9.14 and 12.13 kN were applied. In order to prevent the occurrence of seizure at each load, the speed of the inner ring of the test bearing was maintained at 1800-2500 min^{? 1} and 600-800 min^{? 1}, respectively, to keep the outer ring circumference temperature below 65°C. It is suggested that the damage is caused by metal-to-metal contacts due to lubricant starvation under grease lubrication and to a decrease in oil film thickness due to local increases in temperature.     

Non-Newtonian Effects of Powder-Lubricant Slurries in Hydrostatic and Squeeze-Film Bearings

This paper presents the result of pressure measurements made in hydrostatic and squeeze-film bearings lubricated with a powder-lubricant slurry. The powder lubricant was powdered graphite and the carrier fluid was ethylene glycol. Pressure measurements compared favorably with analytical predictions based on a power law rheological model.

The behavior of ethylene glycol acting alone as a lubricant was also analyzed to provide a baseline for comparing the effects of the graphite powder additive on pressure and flow rate.

The hydrostatic bearing test showed that the addition of graphite powder into ethylene glycol can raise the load-carrying capacity of a lubrication system however pumping requirements are also raised. Squeeze-film bearing tests showed that the damping factor is increased with the addition of powdered graphite into the carrier fluid.     

考虑油膜润滑的轮毂轴承弯曲疲劳寿命预测与分析*

为精确分析预测某型轿车轮毂轴承的弯曲疲劳寿命,考虑轴承工作状态下游隙与油膜厚度的关系,以及温度对游隙和油膜厚度的影响,结合点接触弹流油膜厚度计算方法,精确计算其最小油膜厚度值;根据ISO提供的对Lundberg-Palmgren寿命模型修正方法,计算油膜参数和润滑剂黏度比,从而确定修正系数,建立改进的寿命模型。为了验证改进模型的正确性,使用旋转弯曲疲劳寿命试验机进行疲劳试验,试验结果在误差合理区间内,证明研究模型的可靠性。建立轮毂轴承载荷分布分析模型,讨论中心距对最大滚动体载荷的影响,研究轮毂轴承的疲劳寿命在不同纯弯矩载荷和不同车速下随中心距的变化规律。结果表明：弯矩载荷是影响疲劳寿命的主要因素,增加中心距可以延长轴承寿命;轴承润滑条件与轴承转速有关,在一定范围内,转速越高,其内部润滑越充分,使用寿命越长。     

Abnormal behavior of a hydrodynamic lubrication journal bearing caused by wall slip

Reynolds lubrication theory assumes that there is no wall slip on the interfaces between the solids and lubricant. During recent years, however, it is found that wall slip often happens. The present paper analyzes the wall slip occurring in a hydrodynamic lubrication journal bearing. If the two surfaces have the same adhesion property wall slip always decreases the oil film load support capacity. If there is wall slip over all of the lubricated surfaces, the hydrodynamic effect of the journal bearing vanishes, and no load support exists. If the two lubricated surfaces have different adhesion properties, the wall slip effect is more complex and may cause the journal bearing to operate in an instable manner. In order to avoid the wall slip, the limiting shear stress at the bearing surface should be higher than that at the journal surface.     

An Investigation of Seal Materials for High-Temperature Application

Novel rotating seal materials were developed by powder metallurgy techniques for potential aircraft applications at high speeds and high temperatures.

A systematic wear study without lubrication included several commercially available materials and the following types of experimental materials: (a) pure refractory hard metals, (b) binary alloys of refractory hard metals bonded with nickel and, (c) ternary alloys of refractory hard metals bonded with nickel and infiltrated with silver.

Two ternary alloys, containing nickel bonded WB or CrN and infiltrated with silver, showed superior wear qualities against either tool steel or a nickel—chromium—iron alloy at a sliding speed of 29,000 ft/min under a 14 lb/in² load and at ambient temperatures as high as 1300 F. A commercial titanium carbide composition showed excellent wear characteristics in contact with an identical composition at a sliding speed of 14,000 ft/min under a 16 lb/in² load and at an ambient temperature of 1050 F.     

Theoretical Analysis of Piston-Ring Lubrication Part I—Fully Flooded Lubrication

A one-dimensional analysis for lubrication between the piston ring and cylinder wall has been developed. A fully flooded inlet condition and axisymmetric geometry are considered. The piston ring is treated as a reciprocating, dynamically-loaded bearing with combined sliding and squeeze motion. A system of two nonlinear differential equations is used to model the lubrication including the Reynolds cavitation boundary condition. A numerical procedure is then developed to obtain the cyclic variations of film thickness, frictional force, power loss, and oil flow across the ring.

Results are presented for a typical automotive engine. The effects of ring profile, ring tension, and engine speed are examined. It is shown that this analysis can be used to study the influence of ring design parameters in order to improve the design of the ring pack in reciprocating engines.     

润滑油水侵对动压可倾瓦推力轴承润滑性能的影响*

针对核主泵、船用轴系等特定工况下推力轴承润滑油的进水问题,以46润滑油和68润滑油为例研究润滑油水侵对推力轴承润滑性能的影响。通过黏度测试获得润滑油中水分质量分数为0、0.5%、1.0%时的运动黏度,采用黏温曲线对润滑油含水前后的动力黏度进行表征。将润滑油的黏温关系代入推力轴承的润滑计算当中,获得不同含水量下轴承的最小油膜厚度、温升、流量及功耗等静态特性参数,并分析含水量对推力轴承起飞转速的影响。研究结果表明：润滑油含水后对最小油膜厚度和功耗影响较大,对温升和流量影响较小;随着润滑油含水量的增加最小油膜厚度和功耗均降低,而温升增大,流量减小;使用2种润滑油在不含水和水分质量分数为0.5%时的起飞转速都在50 r/min以下,水分质量分数为1.0%时起飞转速都在50 r/min以上,表明随着含水量的增加起飞转速增大。     

湿式离合器对偶片间油气两相流动的数值模拟

湿式离合器高速旋转时内部形成的复杂油气两相流动会对离合器的性能产生影响,因而需要对湿式离合器内的两相流动特性展开研究。基于有限体积法,采用流体体积函数(Volume of fluid,VOF)多相流模型、RNG k-ε湍流模型,建立考虑径向沟槽影响的三维湿式离合器对偶片间油气两相流动模型。通过对流动模型中油气两相N-S方程进行数值求解,获得了湿式离合器对偶片间油气两相流动的流场分布特性,分析沟槽数量和转速对流场中油相分布及带排转矩的影响。结果表明:湿式离合器内部的润滑油分布是不均匀的,随沟槽的分布呈现出周期性变化,沟槽处润滑油油液体积分数最大;转速和沟槽数目的增加均会使对偶片间油液体积分数下降,影响湿式离合器内润滑油分布的不均匀性;沟槽总面积不变时,增加沟槽数量能使带排转矩最大值减小,最大转矩对应的转速提前。本研究为湿式离合器内部流场分析和带排转矩研究提供了一种新方法。     

基于STAR-CCM+的高速角接触球轴承喷油润滑研究

喷油润滑系统广泛应用于高速滚动轴承,喷油润滑条件下轴承温升特性是影响轴承动态工作稳定性的重要因素。基于两相流理论,以71904C角接触球轴承为研究对象,建立全轴承模型,采用旋转坐标系描述各组件运动,分析滚动轴承在不同参数下喷油润滑的两相流与传热效率的影响规律。结果表明：随着轴承转速增加,轴承搅拌力矩也相应增加,导致轴承内部温度升高;润滑油运动黏度增加,轴承内部流场搅拌力矩增加,导致轴承温度升高;轴承喷油速度增加,内部流场温度呈现先增加后降低趋势,因此存在一个最佳喷油速度使得轴承温升最低。     

润滑油黏度对全陶瓷球轴承腔体温度场分布规律的影响

为揭示全陶瓷球轴承在油润滑条件下内部温度场分布及变化情况,提高全陶瓷球轴承的运转性能与使用寿命,以7007C氮化硅全陶瓷角接触球轴承为研究对象,利用仿真软件模拟分析不同工况和润滑油黏度条件下全陶瓷球轴承腔体内部温度场及润滑油的分布状态;在轴承寿命试验机上进行相同条件下全陶瓷球轴承的动态特性试验,研究在油润滑工况下全陶瓷球轴承的温升特性。结果表明：随着轴承转速的提高,全陶瓷球轴承腔体内温度呈增大趋势,腔体内润滑油体积分数呈减小趋势;更换不同黏度润滑油发现随着润滑油黏度的增大,全陶瓷球轴承腔体内温度场呈现先减小后增大的趋势,存在最优黏度值使全陶瓷球轴承腔体温度达到最小值,轴承服役性能表现最佳。研究成果为实际生产中全陶瓷球轴承最优润滑油的选择提供了技术参考。     

The Prediction of Contact Pressure–Induced Film Thickness Decay in Starved Lubricated Rolling Bearings

Under starved conditions the thickness and distribution of the lubricant film in an elastohydrodynamically lubricated (EHL) contact is directly related to the distribution of lubricant on the track in the inlet to the contact. In starved lubricated rolling bearings this lubricant distribution is determined by many effects. The authors have developed a model to predict the oil lost from the track induced by EHL pressure with no replenishment. A complete bearing is modeled with multiple rolling element EHL contacts and with the applied load to the rolling elements varying along the circumference of the bearing. Results of the oil layer thickness on the track are presented for a ball bearing and a spherical roller bearing for different bearing loads and rotational speeds. The predicted layer thickness decay rate for a ball bearing is significantly larger than for a spherical roller bearing and the predicted effect of the bearing load on the decay rate is small compared to the effect of the rotational speed. The predicted decay periods due to the contact pressure effect are small compared to the observed (grease) life of bearings. The results show that a bearing cannot sustain an adequate layer of oil on the running track unless significant replenishment takes place.