| Abstract: | A model for determination and analysis of bearing external radial and axial load distributions per individual rolling elements and a model for determination of the resistance to motion of rolling friction, accounting for rolling element locations during the bearing track motion with respect to the direction the bearing radial load resultant vector acts, are presented. A dynamic angle of the rolling element location has been defined as well. The models have been developed to determine values of bearing load distribution parameters, individual rolling element loads, and resistances to rolling motion of bearings and rolling bearing systems, as well as to analyze distributions and values of the radial and axial stiffness of rolling elements, bearings, and kinematic pairs as a function of the bearing rolling element distribution and the direction along which the bearing radial load resultant vector acts. The proposed models have been built to carry out analysis of the resistance to motion of rolling kinematic pairs of industrial robot manipulators. Slow‐speed and short‐period motions of rolling bearings have been assumed as a characteristic type of motion of rolling kinematic pairs in manipulators. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
