Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | This paper is a critical study on the stability of a journal bearing, related to two assumptions made concerning the oil-pressure distribution. The two cases considered are: 1. (1) the so-called full journal bearing (Sommerfeld case), and 2. (2) the actual pressure distribution according to Bradford, Tipei, etc. The stability of the journal under a constant load is studied and compared for the two cases, making reference to the extensive work of Tipei based on assumption (2). The limiting case of a constant load equal to nought is also considered because at high speed, or under a small load, the inertia forces are much larger and thus, in a first approximation, the constant load can be neglected. © 1960. |
