A Method for Measuring the Intensity of a Line Load Around a Shaft or Tube

The slip flow effect is considered to estimate the load capacity and the dynamic coefficients of an elastically-supported gas foil hearing when the local Knudsen number for the minimum film thickness is greater than 0.01. The compressible Reynolds equation with slip flow conditions is used to evaluate the load capacity. The linearized dynamic coefficient equations are obtained by the perturbation method. Numerical predictions compare the static and dynamic force performances considering slip flow at room-to-high temperate with the performance of elastically-supported foil bearing without slip flow for a range of bearing compliances and bearing numbers. It has been shown that the slip flow effect on the load capacity and the dynamic coefficients at high temperature is significant in the region of low bearing numbers.