Journal bearing design is complex. It involves optimizing clearances, bearing length, minimum film lubricant, viscosity, flow rate, and inlet slots. Design equations are available, but their solution ...

They lie at the heart of every fidget spinner and in every motor that runs our lives, from the steppers in a 3D printer to the hundreds in every car engine. They can be as simple as a lubricated ...

Bearings in precision equipment such as computer disk-drive spindles, laser scanners/printers, and gyroscopes, need excellent stiffness and damping qualities to run true at high speeds. Until recently ...

Today, Sartorius AG (FWB:SRT) signed an agreement with the British technology group Smiths (LSE:SMIN) to sell German-based Sartorius Bearing Technology GmbH to this Group. According to the agreement, ...

Peer-reviewed research by Thordon Bearings into the hydrodynamic lubrication efficiency of a ship’s propeller shaft bearing has found that the use of seawater-lubricated elastomeric polymer bearings ...

As 2009 closed out, Dover Corp.’s Waukesha Bearings subsidiary acquired Inpro/Seal Co. for an undisclosed price. Other details of the transaction also were not released. Wisconsin-based Waukesha ...