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A preliminary foil gas bearing performance map
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Bruckner, Robert J. Howard, S. Adam DellaCorte, Christopher Radil, Kevin C. |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Description | Recent breakthrough improvements in foil gas bearing load capacity, high temperature tribological coatings and computer based modeling have enabled the development of increasingly larger and more advanced Oil-Free Turbomachinery systems. Successful integration of foil gas bearings into turbomachinery requires a step wise approach that includes conceptual design and feasibility studies, bearing testing, and rotor testing prior to full scale system level demonstrations. Unfortunately, the current level of understanding of foil gas bearings and especially their tribological behavior is often insufficient to avoid developmental problems thereby hampering commercialization of new applications. In this paper, a new approach loosely based upon accepted hydrodynamic theory, is developed which results in a "Foil Gas Bearing Performance Map" to guide the integration process. This performance map, which resembles a Stribeck curve for bearing friction, is useful in describing bearing operating regimes, performance safety margins, the effects of load on performance and limiting factors for foil gas bearings. |
| File Size | 845048 |
| Page Count | 22 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20060051824 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6353mn5m |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2006-10-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Mechanical Engineering Friction Turbomachinery Hydrodynamics Safety High Temperature Foil Bearings Loads Forces Tribology Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |