Measurements of Film Thickness and Pressure Distribution for Optimized Thrust Air Bearing

• Main Authors: Mohd Danial, Bin Ibrahim, Sunami, Yuta, Ochiai, Masayuki, Hashimoto, Hiromu
• Format: Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/28848/1/Measurements%20of%20Film%20T.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/28848/

In this paper, we describe the film thickness and pressure measurement of the optimized thrust air bearing. In our recent study, a new optimization technique of the bearing groove geometry of the hydrodynamic thrust air bearings was proposed and a new groove geometry having a bending curve in o...