Bearing Failures

Description

INTRODUCTION

Bearings are an integral part of anything that rotates, be it your car, the bus you use for community transport, the aircraft that you travel in for vacation or on business, any industrial machine like power plant equipment or wind mills. The applications are endless.

Our specialization series on Bearing Application and Theory provides a detailed introduction the basics of bearings, basics of bearing failures, popular types of bearings and will study design concepts concerning fits and tolerances.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This course on Bearing Failures is the SECOND of our specialization series on Bearing Application and Theory. It is designed as an introduction to professionals that wish to gain a basic knowledge of working with bearings.

The objective of this series is to help gain understanding of the basic parameters behind use of bearings, the designation, important design features, failures, lubrication and some popular bearing types. We will also offer some basic trouble shooting tips. The series covers these concepts with enough details that provide the participants of this course an introduction to working with bearings and its applications.

This course introduces participants to bearing failures and highlights the importance and discusses parameters causing bearing failures. Users learn the causes from photographs of actual failed bearings. They are also presented with some trouble shooting tips in the form of Do’s and Don’ts.

At the end of the course, the participants will understand the common reasons behind bearing failures and steps to avoid these. The course is designed for a basic understanding to bearing failures. After this foundation, users can understand advanced descriptions of the related ISO classification. We will also offer some additional reading resources for further learning.

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE

Our specialization on Bearing Application and Theory is a series of courses that are designed to help those that need basic and intermediate knowledge of bearings. It is for those that do not have any previous knowledge of bearings but need to learn in detail about bearings because the job demands it or are working on a specific project that relates to bearings.

It is designed for a wide variety of audiences like:

• Engineers
• Supervisors
• Managers
• Sales Manager
• Support professionals
• Quality Engineers and managers
• Maintenance, Reliability or Condition monitoring professionals

 COURSE CONTENT 

• INTRODUCTION
• BEARING FAILURE – A PRELUDE
  • Downtime is costly
  • Failure – causes
• MOUNTING
  • Mounting Methods
  • Press force
  • Mounting Rules
  • Mounting Rule – Example#1
  • Mounting Rule – Example#2
  • Failure Example#1 – Mounting
  • Failure Example#2 – Mounting
• LUBRICATION
  • Function of Lubricant
  • Failure Example#3 – Lubrication
  • Failure Example#4 – Lubrication
  • Failure Example#5 – Lubrication
• CONTAMINATION
  • Failure Example#6 – Contamination
• DESIGN
  • Failure Example#7 – Tight Fits
  • Failure Example#8 – Loose Fits
• TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS – Do’s and Don’ts
• REFERENCES & COURSE HANDOUTS
• FINAL QUIZ