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Volume 70, Issue 2, 1 August 1981, Pages 243-248
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Design of tilted hydrostatic thrust bearings

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Abstract

Hydrostatic bearings are usually designed to operate under parallel conditions, but structural and thermal deformations cause tilting of the pad. A semianalytical solution of the pressure equation is used. It is shown that tilting of hydrostatic thrust bearings gives rise to negative pressures and that cavitation may occur depending on the tilt parameter. The characteristic values of the bearing are found to be strong functions of the tilt parameter and of the bearing number.

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