Calculation of Stribeck curves for (water) lubricated journal bearings.pdf

ARTICLE IN PRESS Tribology International 40 (2007) 459–469 /locate/triboint Calculation of Stribeck curves for (water) lubricated journal bearings a, a b Alex de Kraker , Ron A.J. van Ostayen , Daniel J. Rixen aLaboratory of Tribology, Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands bEngineering Dynamics, Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering, Faculty of 3mE, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands Received 10 January 2006; received in revised form 10 April 2006; accepted 26 April 2006 Available online 14 June 2006 Abstract This paper describes a mixed elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) model for finite length elastic journal bearings. The finite element method was employed to discretise the coupled system of 2D–3D Reynolds-structure equations and to compute Stribeck curves at constant load. As underrelaxation strategies have been found to be insufficient for an iterative solution of this problem, artificial dynamics have been added to the numerical structure equations in order to solve for stationary solutions of the fluid–structure problem. An ideal plastic asperity contact model together with an effective film thickness formulation according to Chengwei and Linqing was employ