Effect of Lubrication Status of Bearing on Crankshaft Strength

2007 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. 887-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Sun ◽  
Changlin Gui

There is direct interaction between crankshaft and bearing in an internal combustion engine. The effect of lubrication status of bearing was not considered in the present calculation of crankshaft strength. A given oil film pressure distribution of bearing was generally used as load acted on journal. In this paper, a crankshaft-bearing system was taken as the study object. On the basis of lubrication analysis of misaligned bearing caused by crankshaft deformation, the stress and strength of-crankshaft were calculated using analytical oil film pressure of bearing as the load boundary condition. Crankshaft deformation and bearing load were calculated by whole crankshaft beam-element method. The lubrication of crankshaft bearing was analyzed by the kinetics method. Crankshaft stress was calculated by the finite-element method. The results show that when the effect of crankshaft deformation under load is considered, the offset distribution of oil film pressure of bearing appears and the highest oil film pressure increases remarkably, which result in the stresses of local area on fillet surface of crankshaft journal increase obviously and the safety factor of crankshaft decreases.

2010 ◽  
Vol 37-38 ◽  
pp. 1356-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Gui Li ◽  
Lin Zhu ◽  
Jian Mei Wang ◽  
Hai Lian Gui ◽  
Duo Yan ◽  
...  

ANSYS as finite element software is used to analyze oil film pressure of hydrodynamic oil film bearing, the stress of bearing bush alloy and the simulation movement of shaft and bearing, and then the reasons of oil film bearing failure and the wear mechanism of bearing bush are illustrated in detail.


2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiesheng Zheng ◽  
Shuhua Yang ◽  
Zhonghui Xiao ◽  
Wen Zhang

Based on the free boundary theory and variational method, this paper presents a Ritz method to compute the instantaneous hydrodynamic forces of a real bearing subject to any perturbed motions of the rotor. The given method manipulates the cavitation region by simply introducing a parameter to match the free boundary condition and, as a result, a very simple approximate formula of oil-film pressure were obtained leading to great saving of computing time. The numerical examples show the high accuracy of the proposed formulas. This oil-film force model is also used to analyze the nonlinear dynamics of a rigid unbalanced rotor with elliptical bearing support. The results well agree with those of the oil-film force model computed by the finite element method and the computing time is saved greatly.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Wang ◽  
C. H. Venner ◽  
A. A. Lubrecht

The effect of single-sided and double-sided harmonic surface waviness on the film thickness, pressure, and temperature oscillations in an elastohydrodynamically lubricated eccentric-tappet pair has been investigated in relation to the eccentricity and the waviness wavelength. The results show that, during one working cycle, the waviness causes significant fluctuations of the oil film, pressure, and temperature, as well as a reduction in minimum film thickness. Smaller wavelength causes more dramatic variations in oil film. The fluctuations of the pressure, film thickness, temperature, and traction coefficient caused by double-sided waviness are nearly the same compared with the single-sided waviness, but the variations are less intense.


2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Singla ◽  
Amit Chauhan

Purpose The current trend of modern industry is to use machineries which rotate at high speed along with the capability of carrying heavy rotor loads. This paper aims at static thermal analysis of two different profiles of non-circular journal bearings – a true elliptical bearing and orthogonal bearing. Design/methodology/approach The Reynolds equation has been solved through finite difference method to compute the oil film pressure. Parabolic temperature profile approximation technique has been used to solve the energy equation and thus used for computation of various bearing performance characteristics such as thermo-hydrodynamic oil film pressure, temperature, load capacity, Sommerfeld number and power loss characteristics across the bearing. The effect of ellipticity ratio on the bearing performance characteristics has also been obtained for both the elliptical and vertical offset bearing using three different commercially available grades of oil (Hydrol 32, 68 and 100). Findings It has been observed that the thermo-hydrodynamic pressure and temperature rise of the oil film is less in orthogonal bearing as compared to the true elliptical bearing for same operating conditions. The effect of ellipticity ratio of non-circularity on bearing performance parameters have been observed to be less in case of elliptical bearing as compared to orthogonal bearing. It has been concluded that though the rise in oil film temperature is high for true elliptical bearing, but still it should be preferred over orthogonal profile under study, as it has comparably good load-carrying capacity. Originality/value The performance parametric analysis will help the designers to select such kind of non-circular journal bearing for various applications.


2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (20) ◽  
pp. 3871-3878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diyar I. Ahmed ◽  
S. Kasolang ◽  
Basim A. Khidhir ◽  
B.F. Yousif

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 168781401989585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seongsu Kim ◽  
Juhwan Choi ◽  
Jin-Gyun Kim ◽  
Ryo Hatakeyama ◽  
Hiroshi Kuribara ◽  
...  

In this work, we propose a robust modeling and analysis technique of the piston-lubrication system considering fluid–structure interaction. The proposed schemes are based on combining the elastohydrodynamic analysis and multi-flexible body dynamics. In particular, multi-flexible body dynamics analysis can offer highly precise numerical results regarding nonlinear deformation of the piston skirt and cylinder bore, which can lead to more accurate results of film thickness for gaps filled with lubricant and of relative velocity of facing surfaces between the piston skirt and the cylinder block. These dynamic analysis results are also used in the elastohydrodynamic analysis to compute the oil film pressure and asperity contact pressure that are used as external forces to evaluate the dynamic motions of the flexible bodies. A series of processes are repeated to accurately predict the lubrication characteristics such as the clearance and oil film pressure. In addition, the Craig–Bampton modal reduction, which is a standard type of component mode synthesis, is employed to accelerate the computational speed. The performance of the proposed modeling schemes implemented in the RecurDyn™ multi-flexible body dynamics environment is demonstrated using a well-established numerical example, and the proposed simulation methods are also verified with the experimental results in a motor cycle engine (gasoline) which has a four cycle, single cylinder, overhead camshaft (OHC), air cooled.


Author(s):  
Zhenpeng Wu ◽  
Vanliem Nguyen ◽  
Vanquynh Le ◽  
Xuanlong Le ◽  
Vancuong Bui

The study proposes a design and optimization of textures on the surface of crankpin bearing to improve the lubrication efficiency and friction power loss (LE-FPL). A hydrodynamic lubrication model of crankpin bearing considering the impact of the external dynamic load and micro asperity contact is established. Based on the established model, the lubrication textures designed on the bearing surface are then simulated and optimized through the algorithms developed in Matlab environment and multi-objective optimization method. Increasing the oil film pressure and reducing the contact force ( Wac) in the asperity contact region, friction force ( Ff), and friction coefficient ( µ) of crankpin bearing are the objective functions to evaluate the LE-FPL. The study results indicate that the lubrication textures designed on the bearing surface have an obvious effect on improving the LE-FPL. Especially, with the optimized textures, the maximum oil film pressure is greatly increased by 44.8% while the maximum values of Wac and Ff are significantly reduced by 22% and 25%. Consequently, the lubrication textures added on the surface of crankpin bearing can greatly improve the LE-FPL.


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