EXAMPLE 111 Consider SKF, which rates its bearings for 1 million revolutions, so that L10

life is
60LRnR = 106 revolutions. The LRnR60 product produces a familiar number. Timken,
for example, uses 90(106) revolutions. If you desire a life of 5000 h at 1725 rev/min
with a load of 400 lbf with a reliability of 90 percent, for which catalog rating would
you search in an SKF catalog?
Solution From Eq. (113),
C10 = FD
_
LDnD60
LRnR60
_1/a
= 400
_
5000(1725)60
106
_1/3
= 3211 lbf = 14.3 kN
If a bearing manufacturer rates bearings at 500 h at 331
3 rev/min with a reliability
of 0.90, then LRnR60 = 500(331
3 )60 = 106 revolutions. The tendency is to substitute
106 for LRnR60 in Eq. (113). Although it is true that the 60 terms in Eq. (113) as
displayed cancel algebraically, they are worth keeping, because at some point in your
keystroke sequence on your hand-held calculator the manufacturers magic number
(106 or some other number) will appear to remind you of what the rating basis is and
those manufacturers catalogs to which you are limited. Of course, if you evaluate the
bracketed quantity in Eq. (113) by alternating between numerator and denominator
entries, the magic number will not appear and you will have lost an opportunity to check.
EXAMPLE 113 The design load on a ball bearing is 413 lbf and an application factor of 1.2
is appropriate.
The speed of the shaft is to be 300 rev/min, the life to be 30 kh with a reliability
of 0.99. What is the C10 catalog entry to be sought (or exceeded) when searching for a
deep-groove bearing in a manufacturers catalog on the basis of 10 6 revolutions for rating
life? The Weibull parameters are x0 = 0.02, ( x0) = 4.439, and b = 1.483.
Solution xD =
L
L10 =
60LDnD
60LRnR =
60(30 000)300
106 = 540
Thus, the design life is 540 times the L10 life. For a ball bearing, a = 3. Then, from
Eq. (117),
Answer C10 = (1.2)(413)
_
540
0.02 + 4.439(1 0.99)1/1.483
_1/3
= 6696 lbf

The purposes of an antifriction-bearing lubricant may be summarized as follows:

1 To provide a film of lubricant between the sliding and rolling surfaces
2 To help distribute and dissipate heat
3 To prevent corrosion of the bearing surfaces
4 To protect the parts from the entrance of foreign matter
Elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHD) is the phenomenon
that occurs when a lubricant is introduced between surfaces that are in pure
rolling contact. The contact of gear teeth and that found in rolling bearings and in
cam-and-follower surfaces are typical examples. When a lubricant is trapped between
two surfaces in rolling contact, a tremendous increase in the pressure within the lubricant
film occurs. But viscosity is exponentially related to pressure, and so a very large
increase in viscosity occurs in the lubricant that is trapped between the surfaces.
Leibensperger2 observes that the change in viscosity in and out of contact pressure is
equivalent to the difference between cold asphalt and light sewing machine oil.