SILVER OAK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MACHINE DESIGN
MEET BAKOTIA
Question Bank
1 What are the functions of bearing? Classify different types of bearings. Enlist types of Journal bearing.
2 Compare Hydrodynamic lubrication with Hydrostatic lubrication
3 Compare sliding contact and rolling contact bearings
4 Discuss various modes of Lubrication. Explain regimes of lubrication.
5 Lubricants
6 Additives
Write objectives of lubrication
7 Greases
8 Viscocity and its measurement. SAE
9 Effect of pressure and temperature on viscosity
10 Stable and unstable lubrication
11 Thin and thick film lubrication
12 Hydrodynamic Bearing: Lubrication theory (Petroff’s Equation, Reynolds’ Equation),
Design of bearings with Raimondi and Boyd method
, power and heat generati
Explain and Petroff’s equation for hydrodynamic journal bearings with assumptions made.
A Petroff’s sleeve bearing consists of a sleeve having a bore diameter of 100.1 mm and a length
of 100 mm. A shaft having 100 mm diameter supports a load of 4000 N. A shaft runs at 2880
r.p.m in the sleeve. If the frictional torque on the shaft is 10 N-m, find i) The absolute viscosity
of lubrication, ii) The bearing pressure, iii) The coefficient of friction and iv) The power lost in
bearing.
Explain Bearing materials in detail.
Explain desirable properties of bearing materials used for sliding contact bearings.
Explain the performance of a hydrodynamic bearing with the curve of µ versus Z.N / p. OR
Explain the performance of a hydrodynamic bearing with neat curve of coefficient of friction
versus bearing characteristic number.
Explain the effects of the L/D ratio and C/D ratio parameters on the performance of journal
bearing. Explain minimum oil-film thickness in hydrodynamic bearings.
Explain the design procedure for hydrodynamic journal bearings based on Raimondi boyd
method
The following data is given for a 3600 hydrodynamic bearings:
Radial load : 3.1 kN, Journal diameter : 50 mm, Bearing length : 50 mm, Journal speed : 1440
rpm, Radial clearance : 50 microns, Viscosity of lubricant : 25 cP, Density of lubricant : 860 kg /
m3, Sp. Heat of lubricant : 1.76 kJ / kg 0C. Assuming that the total heat generated in the bearing
is carried by the total oil flow in the bearing. Calculate:
i) Sommerfeld Number, ii) Minimum oil-film thickness, iii) The coefficient of friction, iv) The
power lost in friction, v) The total flow rate of lubricant in liter /minute, vi) Side leakage
Calculate the maximum radial load that the journal can carry and operate at hydrodynamic
condition for the following data of a full journal bearing. Journal diameter = 60 mm, bearing
length = 60 mm, radial clearance = 0.06 mm, minimum film thickness = 0.006 mm, journal
speed = 1440 rpm, viscosity of lubricant = 20 cP.
For the above calculated load, find the power lost in friction.
Explain the design procedure for hydrodynamic journal bearings based on method in R S
Khurmi
The load on the journal bearing is 150kN due to turbine shaft of 300mm diameter running at
1800 r.p.m. determine the following: (a) Length of the bearing if the allowable bearing
pressure is 1.6 MPa, and (b) Amount of heat to be removed by the lubricant per minute if the
bearing temperature is 600C and viscosity of the oil at 600C is 0.02 kg/m-s and the bearing
clearance is 0.25mm.
Design a journal bearing from the following data: Radial load = 20 kN diameter of journal
=100 mm Speed of journal =900 r.p.m. Oil SAE 10 with viscosity at 550
C = 0.017 kg/m-sec Ambient temperature =15.50C
Maximum bearing pressure = 1.5 MPa
Permissible rise in oil temperature = 100 C
Heat dissipation coefficient = 1232 W/m2/0C L/D ratio = 1.6
Design parameter ZN/p = 28 Clearance ratio = 0.0013s Specific heat of oil = 1900 J/kg/0 C
A 80 mm long journal bearing supports a load of 2800 N on a 50 mm diameter shaft. The bearing
has a radial clearance of 0.05 mm and the viscosity of the oil is 0.021 kg / m-s at the operating
temperature. If the bearing is capable of dissipating 80 J/s, determine the maximum safe speed.
What is Sommerfeld Number? What is its significance in bearing design.
