Visual inspection on premature failure of electric motor bearings

• Main Authors: Edy Sutjipto, Agus Geter, Triwiyanto, A, Aminanda, Yulfian, Fekry Faris, Waleed, Adesta, Erry Yulian Triblas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland 2011
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/4222/1/visual_Inspection_on_premature_failure_of_electrical_motor_bearings.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/4222/; http://www.scientific.net/AMM.84-85.557

All electrical motor or generator bearings can potential suffers from electric erosion. Unfortunately, problems can start after just a few months of running a new electric motor or generator. From visual inspection, it was found that the failure happened on the raceway surface in equal spacing. Ther...