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The term "over-skidding" indicates that the cage rotational speed ratio exceeds the theoretical value as ball purely rolls on the raceway. Different from the skidding phenomenon that occurs in low-load and high-speed bearing, over-skidding usually occurs in large-size angular contact bearings, and it is still difficult to suppress under high load conditions. The main forms of damage to the raceway by over-skidding are spinning and gyro slip. To further explore the vibration characteristics and thermal effects of this phenomenon, a set of over-skidding tests of an angular contact bearing with a bore diameter of 220 mm were conducted on an industrial-size test bench. Through the experiment, the influence of axial load, rotational speed, and lubrication conditions on the occurrence of over-skidding were determined. Based on a previous dynamics model, the heat generation and thermal network models were integrated in the present study to predict the over-skidding and its thermal behavior. The model was validated in terms of the measured degree of over-skidding and temperature rise. The results showed that the degree of over-skidding reaches up to 12% of the theoretical value, and the friction power loss of the ball-pocket accounts for 30% of the total power loss. The analysis of the vibration signal showed a strong correlation between the bearing vibration characteristics and over-skidding behavior, thereby providing a way to indirectly measure the degree of over-skidding.


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Dynamic, thermal, and vibrational analysis of ball bearings with over-skidding behavior

Show Author's information Shuai GAO1,2Qinkai HAN2( )Paolo PENNACCHI1Steven CHATTERTON1Fulei CHU2
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via G. La Masa 1, Milan 20156, Italy
State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

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The term "over-skidding" indicates that the cage rotational speed ratio exceeds the theoretical value as ball purely rolls on the raceway. Different from the skidding phenomenon that occurs in low-load and high-speed bearing, over-skidding usually occurs in large-size angular contact bearings, and it is still difficult to suppress under high load conditions. The main forms of damage to the raceway by over-skidding are spinning and gyro slip. To further explore the vibration characteristics and thermal effects of this phenomenon, a set of over-skidding tests of an angular contact bearing with a bore diameter of 220 mm were conducted on an industrial-size test bench. Through the experiment, the influence of axial load, rotational speed, and lubrication conditions on the occurrence of over-skidding were determined. Based on a previous dynamics model, the heat generation and thermal network models were integrated in the present study to predict the over-skidding and its thermal behavior. The model was validated in terms of the measured degree of over-skidding and temperature rise. The results showed that the degree of over-skidding reaches up to 12% of the theoretical value, and the friction power loss of the ball-pocket accounts for 30% of the total power loss. The analysis of the vibration signal showed a strong correlation between the bearing vibration characteristics and over-skidding behavior, thereby providing a way to indirectly measure the degree of over-skidding.

Keywords: dynamic model, over-skidding, vibration characteristics, power loss, temperature rise

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Received: 02 November 2021
Revised: 05 February 2022
Accepted: 12 March 2022
Published: 04 July 2022
Issue date: April 2023

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This research was supported in part by a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) (No. 201806880007), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11872222), and the State Key Laboratory of Tribology (No. SKLT2021D11). The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research is acknowledged for the support provided by the Project "Department of Excellence LIS4.0 - Lightweight and Smart Structures for Industry 4.0".

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