Abstract
This paper describes the measurement of oil film thickness between rolling element and inner raceway in cylindrical roller bearing. A fine piezoelectric element is bonded on the inner surface of the inner ring to measure the reflection coefficient of oil between rolling element and inner raceway. The quasi-static spring model is used to calculate oil film thickness from the corrected reflection coefficient data. Experiments are described on a simplified cylindrical roller bearing configured by one cylindrical roller, 11ø, and an inner ring from a NU209EM bearing. Reasonable agreement is shown over several loads and speeds with predictions from elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) theory.
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