Aerostatic bearings design and analysis with the application to precision engineering: State-of-the-art and future perspectives

Q Gao, W Chen, L Lu, D Huo, K Cheng - Tribology International, 2019 - Elsevier
Aerostatic bearings have been employed as an essential precision engineering element
and enabling technology in numerous applications requiring precision and ultraprecision …

Effect of the deformation of porous materials on the performance of aerostatic bearings by fluid-solid interaction method

W Wang, X Cheng, M Zhang, W Gong, H Cui - Tribology International, 2020 - Elsevier
Aerostatic porous bearing is a new supporting structure gradually used in ultra-precision
machine tools. Considering the relatively lower Young's modulus of porous, there are few …

Improved modeling method of inherently compensated aerostatic thrust bearings considering pressure depression

H Zhuang, J Ding, P Chen, Y Chang - Precision Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
For inherently compensated aerostatic bearings, the traditional modeling method of
describing an air supply orifice with a nodal point results in computational errors when …

A novel modeling method to investigate the performance of aerostatic spindle considering the fluid-structure interaction

Q Gao, L Lu, W Chen, G Chen, G Wang - Tribology International, 2017 - Elsevier
The performances of aerostatic spindle are highly affected by the fluid-structure interaction
(FSI) between air film and solid structure. This paper proposes a novel modeling method to …

Investigation on the thermal behavior of an aerostatic spindle system considering multi-physics coupling effect

Q Gao, L Lu, R Zhang, L Song, D Huo… - The International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
The thermal behavior of aerostatic spindles is significantly affected by the multi-physics
coupling phenomenon between the air film, the solid structure, and the temperature field of …

Application of direct coupling method to design problems of hydrostatic guideways accounting for fluid-structure interactions

WU Yangong, Z Qiao, H Ge, J Xue, B Wang - Advances in Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The deformation of slide carriages caused by oil pressure produces a substantial effect on
the performance of hydrostatic guideways. This paper is aimed to propose a practical fluid …

Investigation on the fluid–structure interaction effect of an aerostatic spindle and the influence of structural dimensions on its performance

L Lu, Q Gao, W Chen, L Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The performances of aerostatic spindle are highly affected by the fluid–structure interaction
between air film and solid structure. This paper proposes a comprehensive two-way fluid …

Design of an eccentric vacuum preloaded aerostatic bearing to improve the lateral stiffness of guideway

J Yao, Z Yin, N Chai, S Meng, Y Li - Tribology Transactions, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The conventional aerostatic guideway with two relatively large opposed aerostatic bearing
pads (OABPs) has large thrust forces at the lateral carriages. The structure is deformed due …

Influence of microscale effect on the radial rotation error of aerostatic spindle

C Zha, T Li, Y Zhao, D Chen - Proceedings of the Institution …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents the influence of the microscale effect on the radial rotation error of
aerostatic spindle, which is determined by the corresponding stiffness, damping, and …

Structure optimization of aerostatic thrust bearing based on air film pressure field characteristics analysis

G Chen, Y Ge, Q Lu, W Zhang, N Yu… - Tribology …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The air film pressure field (AFPF) of aerostatic thrust bearings significantly determines the
working performance of the bearings, and the characteristics of AFPF are closely related to …