INTRODUCTION

Bearings are mechanical device used to provide relative motion in the desired direction. This
device reduces the friction between the moving parts, thus providing constraint-free motion.
Bearings of different types have found various applications in different industries since ages.
Among other bearings, journal bearings containing no rolling elements consist of a journal or
shaft in order to rotate freely, supported by a sleeve or metal shell with a lubricant such as oil
separating the two parts. Journal bearings are also referred to as plain bearings.

Journal bearings presently have vast variety of applications in different sectors and industries
such as manufacturing and production, automotive sector, power generation etc. Its efficiency in
handling high loads at high speeds, longer durability and quieter operations proves to be highly
beneficial in such applications. While hydrodynamic journal bearings rely upon the rotational
motion to separate the journal and sleeve during its operation, hydrostatic bearings depend on the
pressure through the lubricant fluid supply system to separate the moving parts.

The determination of effect of application of different loads at varying speeds is done by drafting
and modeling of a conventional journal bearing followed by the dynamic analysis of the 3D
model of conventional journal bearing.

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LITERATURE REVIEW

1. S.K. Guha did work on analysis of steady-state characteristics of misaligned

hydrodynamic journal bearings with isotropic roughness effect
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S. Kango, R.K. Sharma & R.K. Pandey did work on thermal analysis of micro textured
journal bearing using non-Newtonian rheology of lubricant and JFO boundary conditions

Chandra B. Khatri n, Satish C. Sharma worked on Influence of textured surface on the

performance of non-recessed hybrid journal bearing operating with non-Newtonian
lubricant in Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Tribology Laboratory,
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee 247667, India in the year 2016.
3. T. Nagaraju, Satish C. Sharma & S. C. Jain did work on Performance of Externally
Pressurized Non-Recessed Roughened Journal Bearing System Operating with Non-
Newtonian Lubricant in P.E.S College of Engineering, Mandya, 571 401, India and
Indian Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering ,
Roorkee, 247 667, India in the year 2003
4. Mingfeng Qiu, Adis Delic & Bart Raeymaekers did work on The Effect of Texture Shape
on the Load-Carrying Capacity of Gas-Lubricated Parallel Slider Bearings in the year
2012
5. T.V.V.L.N. Rao n, A.M.A. Rani, T. Nagarajan, F.M. Hashim worked on Analysis of
slider and journal bearing using partially textured slip surface in Mechanical Engineering
Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 31750 Tronoh, Perak Darul Ridzuan,
Malaysia in the year 2012
6. T.V.V.L.N. Rao n, A.M.A. Rani, T. Nagarajan, F.M. Hashim did work on Analysis of couple
stress fluid lubricated partially textured slip slider and journal bearing using narrow groove
theory

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7. Satish C. Sharma, Saurabh K. Yadav did work on Performance analysis of a fully
textured hybrid circular thrust pad bearing system operating with non-Newtonian
lubricant in Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Tribology Laboratory,
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee 247667, India in 2014.
8. Min-soo Suh, Young-hun Chae, Seock-sam Kim, Tatsuya Hinoki & Akira Kohyama did
work on Effect of geometrical parameters in micro-grooved crosshatch pattern under
lubricated sliding friction in Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University,
Gokasho, Uji, 611-0011 Kyoto, Japan & Engineering of Tribology Institute, Kyungpook
National University, 1370 Sankyuk-dong, Buk-gu, 702-701 Daegu, Republic of Korea in
the year 2010.
9. Nacer Tala-Ighil, Michel Fillon, Patrick Maspeyrot worked on Effect of textured area on
the performances of a hydrodynamic journal bearing in Centre de Recherche Scientifique
et Technique en Soudage et Contrˆole (CSC), Route de Dely-Ibrahim BP 64, Che´raga,
Alger, Algeria and Institut Pprime, De´partement Ge´nie Me´canique et Systemes
Complexes, SP2MI, Bd Pierre et Marie Curie, BP 30179, 86962 Futuroscope Chasseneuil
Cedex, France in the year 2011.

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 Chapter 3 METHODOLOGY

The completion of work has been done in two steps:-

1. In first step, the drafting and modelling of a conventional journal bearing has been
carried out using a 3D Modelling software (Solidworks).

2. In second step , the dynamic analysis of the 3D model of Conventional Journal Bearing
was carried out using ANSYS software.

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 OBJECTIVE

1)Study about different types of Journal bearings and their terminologies.

2)Modelling and Designing of Conventional Journal Bearing.

3)Analysis of performance of Conventional Journal Bearing.

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 Chapter 4 Theoritical Modeling

A journal bearing of bronze material has been considered for the present
analysis. The various parameter of the bearing are given below.

BEARING
 Material- Commercial Leaded Bronze
 Outer Diameter- 40mm
 Inner Diameter- 22.035 mm
 l/d ratio -1
 Radial Clearance- 0.027 mm
SHAFT
 Material:- Stainless steel
 Outer diameter :- 22 mm
 Inner Diameter -18mm

LUBRICANT

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 SOLID WORKS MODELLING

STEP 1: The wireframe drawing was drawn for bearing.

Figure 1: Wireframe model of bearing

STEP 2: The grooves ,threads contours were provided into the prototype model.

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STEP 3: The shaft is also created by first drawing wireframe design.

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STEP 4: The final shaft model was created using boss extrude command.

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STEP 5: Material rendering is applied to bearing.

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STEP 6: Material rendering is applied to shaft.

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STEP 7: Final bearing and shaft assembly is created.

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STEP8: The Static load test is simulated on the model.

ANSYS ANALYSIS

STEP 1: The model created in solidworks is converted to IGS format and imported to ANSYS
software.

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STEP 2: The meshing of the whole assembly is done.

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 STEP3: Boundary conditions,lubricant properties, Material, oil inlet speed are provided for
calculations and analysis in Fluent Addin.

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STEP 4: Number of iterations are provided and calculation command is given.

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STEP 5: The CFD Post is opened for setting the direction ,speed etc. for final simulation and
results.

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Chapter 5oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooResult and conlusion

The Von Mises stress developed in the bearing is around 1.058 N/mm2

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After applying “Fluent” the results have been obtained in the typical color combination covering
each and every region of oil film, which depicts the pressure concentration in and around the oil
film. The intensity of the color also depicts the magnitude of pressure concentrated around the
bearing higher the intensity i.e., Red region will show the highest pressure concentration and it is
found to be close to 0.00314 Mpa and it is decreasing in the manner as shown is pattern graph.

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Figure : Result obtained after applying ANSYS Fluent

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Similarly the application of “steady thermal” showed us the temperature distribution for speed
and loads in which the red colored region has maximum value with temperature around 106.25
deg. celsius.

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 REFERENCES

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3) S. Kango , R.K.Sharma , R.K.Pandey , “Thermal analysis of microtextured journal

bearing using non-Newtonian rheology of lubricant and JFO boundary conditions” ,
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4) Chandra B.Khatri , SatishC.Sharma ,“Influence of textured surface on the performance of

non-recessed hybrid journal bearing operating with non-Newtonian lubricant” , Tribology
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5) T. Nagaraju , Satish C. Sharma & S. C. Jain, Performance of Externally Pressurized Non-

Recessed Roughened Journal Bearing System Operating with Non-Newtonian Lubricant,
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(2012), 0027-0035

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journal bearing using partially textured slip surface” , Tribology International 56 (2012)
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8) T.V.V.L.N.Rao n, A.M.A.Rani,T.Nagarajan,F.M.Hashim,” Analysis of couple stress

fluid lubricated partially textured slip slider and journal bearing using narrow groove
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9) Satish C. Sharma, Saurabh K. Yadav , “Performance analysis of a fully textured hybrid

circular thrust pad bearing system operating with non-Newtonian lubricant”,
TribologyInternational 77 (2014) 50–64.

10) Min-soo Suh , Young-hun Chae , Seock- sam Kim , Tatsuya Hinoki , Akira Kohyama,
“Effect of geometrical parameters in micro-grooved crosshatch pattern under lubricated
sliding friction”, Tribology International 43 (2010) 1508–1517.

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11) Nacer Tala-Ighil , Michel Fillon , Patrick Maspeyrot,” Effect of textured area on the
performances of a hydrodynamic journal bearing”, Tribology International 44 (2011)
211–219.

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