Development of Software for Different Textured Profile Thrust Bearing

Abstract

We know friction is a necessary evil. Friction causes wear and tear. In the field of thrust bearing researchers are finding new ways to reduce friction and hence wear and tear. One of the methods is to use texture over the thrust bearing which will reduce the area of contact between two surfaces and hence it will reduce the friction coefficient and wear and tear of the acting surface. In forming the texture, regular micro structure were formed on the surface in the form of dimples or bumps. Numerical analysis was carried out before by the researchers to know the properties of spherical, cylindrical, elliptical, rectangular and square texture on the thrust bearing. In the present work, software of the interface was developed to find out the different behavior shown by spherical, cylindrical, elliptical, rectangular and square texture on the thrust bearing. With the help of etching process and laser technology it is very easy to fabricate these kind of five texture economically, so these kind of texture were chosen for thrust bearing. Previously researchers have done the numerical analysis to know the properties of thrust bearing by varying the parameters like aspect ratio, number of rows and columns, number of texture on both circumferential and radial directions on thrust bearing. By using this software researchers from around the world can study the various effects of texture profile without doing any rigorous analysis and it will save a lot of time for them. The software will be capable of calculating pressure profile and load carrying capacity by providing the input parameter of the texture height. An effort is made to develop interactive and user-friendly software capable of evaluating and generating different graphs to further the knowledge on different textured thrust bearing