Thrust Bearing Analysis

Three most commonly used thrust bearing types are included in this program. They are: tapered-land thrust bearing, tilting-pad thrust bearing, and hydrodynamic pocket thrust bearing. The analysis is based on the following references:

1. Machinery’s Handbook by Eric Oberg, Franklin D. Jones and Holbrook L. Horton, Industrial Press Inc., New York, NY 10157
   
   
2. Bearing Design and Application, by Donald F. Wilcock and E. Richard Booser, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY, 1957.
   
   
3. The Hydrodynamic Pocket Thrust Bearing, by Donald F. Wilcock, ASME Trans. 1955, pp. 311-319.

A complete FEA thrust bearing analysis is also available (DyRoBeS-ThrustBrg) which analyzes various thrust bearings with the Reynolds equation coupled with the energy equation in uni- or bi-directional rotations. Both pressure and temperature distribution can be obtained in this FEA program. This is a separate program from BePerf..

Taper Land Thrust Bearing

Taper Land Thrust Bearing Design Tool

Tilting Pad Thrust Bearing

Pocket Thrust Bearing

sample outputs from the program ThrustBrg

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