Lubrication/Bearing Design

Catalog description

Prerequisites: ME 3720, ME 4020. Lubricants; hydrostatic and hydrodynamic lubrication; Reynolds equation and computer-aided design and optimization of journal, slider, polar, and air-lubricated bearings; squeeze films and dynamic loading; foil and compliant bearings, elastohydrodynamics, rotor dynamics with lubricant interaction, magnetic tape lubrication; Non-Newtonian lubricants, finite element applications, seals.