Bearing Design in Machinery

Avraham Harnoy is Professor and Director of the Bearings and Lubrications Laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark. The author or coauthor of numerous professional publications, he has had many years of diversified industrial and academic experience and has conducted extensive research in bearings design and lubrication. Dr. Harnoy received the D.Sc. degree from the Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.

• Classification and Selection of Bearings. Lubricant Viscosity. Fundamental Properties of Lubricants. Principles of Hydrodynamic Lubrication. Basic Hydrodynamic Equations. Long Hydrodynamic Journal Bearing. Short Journal Bearings. Design Charts for Finite-Length Journal Bearings. Practical Applications of Journal Bearings. Hydrostatic Bearings. Bearing Materials. Rolling Element Bearings. Selection and Design of Rolling Bearings. Testing of Friction and Wear. Hydrodynamic Bearings Under Dynamic Conditions. Friction Characteristics. Modeling Dynamic Friction. Case Study: Composite Bearing-Rolling Element and Fluid Film in Series. Non-Newtonian Viscoelastic Effects. Orthopedic Joint Implants.Appendices. Index.