Ultra Precision Bearings

Ultra-precision bearings can achieve extreme accuracy of rotation, making them ideal for use in numerous applications across a variety of fields, including hard disk drives, roundness measuring machines and optical scanners. Ultraprecision Bearings provides a detailed review of the different types of bearing and their properties, as well as an analysis of the factors that influence motion error, stiffness and damping. Following an introduction to basic principles of motion error, each chapter of the book is then devoted to the basic principles and properties of a specific type of bearing: ball, hydrodynamic, aerodynamic, hydrostatic and aerostatic. The book concludes with a comparison of these types of bearing and their applications.

About the author

Frank Wardle is Managing Director of UPM Ltd – a research and development company specialising in Ultra Precision equipment. He has more than 30 years of practical experience in bearing research, initially with the rolling bearing companies Ransom, Hoffman and Pollard (RHP) and SKF and later with the air bearing manufacturer Loadpoint Ltd. Throughout this period he was not only responsible for research into ways of improving bearing performance, but also for developing new commercial bearing designs and some of the machinery used for their manufacture and testing.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Wardle, F Wardle, F. Wardle
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 19.02.2015
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering
• EAN: 9780857091628
• ISBN: 978-0-85709-162-8
• Pages: 442
• Series: Woodhead Publishing
• Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical; Mechanical Engineering