Have you ever wondered how cars and other motor vehicles run smoothly and quietly? As a child, I have always been in awe of how these powerful machines work. Later on, I understood that these machines run smoothly with the help of smaller machines called bearings. Bearings are important to the machines we use everyday, [...]
A mechanical bearing is simply termed as a device to permit constrained relative motion between two parts, typically rotation or linear movement. Bearings used in spindles have undergone various incremental improvements these days. The hybrid ball bearings using ceramic balls are more popular as compared to the steel bearings. But nowadays, besides the traditional bearings, [...]
Bearings are used to create frictionless movement between two parts. There is a wide variety of bearings including ball bearings, needle bearings, thrust bearings and even magnetic bearings. What is a magnetic bearing? Well as the name suggests it is a bearing that supports its load using magnetic forces rather than using mechanical contact. Usually [...]
