Encourages engineering innovation by presenting rare case studies, such as hydrodynamic and rolling-element bearings in series and adjustable hydrostatic pads for large bearings.

Bearing Design in Machinery considers

• the applications of mineral and synthetic oils, greases, solid lubricants, and oil additives
• fundamentals of fluid-film lubrication, including simplified computations for hydrodynamic bearing design
• chart usage in practical bearing design procedures and estimation of the operating temperature of oil
• concepts, calculations, and design of hydrostatic bearings with an external pump
• friction and wear characteristics of metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites, and other bearing materials
• fatigue life and advanced materials and processes
• calculations of contact stresses in rolling bearings and elastohydrodynamic lubrication
• bearings testing under static and dynamic conditions
• the advantages of VI improved viscoelastic lubricants
• challenges in the development and design of artificial joint implants

Bearing Design in Machinery will benefit mechanical, industrial, aeronautical, and design engineers, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.