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Application of materials on foil thrust bearings for micro turbines

  • Quan Zhou
  • , Yu Hou
  • , Ru Gang Chen
  • Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University

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Abstract

Foil bearing that has a soft surface is a kind of air bearing. The performances of foil bearings are greatly affected by the materials of bearing surface, which is called foil element. In order to estimate the performance of foil bearings, two kinds of foil thrust bearings that are made of different materials respectively were tested in a micro turbine system, which contains rotation part and static part. Load capacity and stability of these foil thrust bearings were investigated in experiments. The results show that bearing which contains rubber has higher load capacity and bearing which contains copper foil has higher stability. According to the work in this paper, applications with different requirements can adopt suitable foil thrust bearing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Manufacturing Systems
Pages2759-2762
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2nd International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering, ICMSE 2011 - Guilin, China
Duration: 9 Apr 201111 Apr 2011

Publication series

NameAdvanced Materials Research
Volume201-203
ISSN (Print)1022-6680

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering, ICMSE 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuilin
Period9/04/1111/04/11

Keywords

  • Bearing stability
  • Copper foil
  • Foil bearing
  • Load capacity
  • Rubber foil

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