Bearings

Bearings

Bearings are machine elements with the special property of restricting movement between moving parts to only the intended motion or direction.

Industry: Machine tools

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Bearings

load-carrying capacity

Machine tools; Bearings

The property of a lubricant that forms a film on the lubricated surface, which resists rupture under given load conditions. It is expressed as the maximum load the lubricated system can support ...

lip height

Machine tools; Bearings

The axial distance from the outside seal face to the toe face.

lip length

Machine tools; Bearings

The axial distance between the thinnest part of the flex section and the contact line.

line spalling

Machine tools; Bearings

Roller spaced spalling from bearings operating after etching damage.

limits

Machine tools; Bearings

Maximum and minimum allowable dimensions, resulting from the application of predetermined tolerances to a specified dimension.

lapping

Machine tools; Bearings

An abrading process for refining the surface finish and the geometrical accuracy of a surface.

Life of individual rolling bearing is the number of revolutions (or hours at some given constant speed) which bearing runs before first evidence of fatigue develops in the material of either ring or ...