Vibration Modeling of Rotating Spindles Supported by Lubricated Bearings

This paper outlines a five degrees of freedom model of a rotating spindle supported by a pair of lubricated angular contact ball bearings. The ball to raceway contacts are simulated by non-linear contact springs, representing the elastic deformation of the mating rolling members and nonlinear spring/dampers, corresponding to the contact elastohydrodynamic oil film thickness. A regression formula is used to model the latter and includes the damping contributed by the squeeze film effect caused by the mutual convergence of bearing rings. Some results of simulation studies with the model are also presented, in both the time and frequency domains. They include the overall system response, when subjected to varying spindle mass or the number of balls in the support bearings. Furthermore, comparisons are made between the simulated response of the dry and lubricated models. The overall contribution to damping of the elatstohydrodynamic oil films between the rolling elements and their raceways is shown to be slight.

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