Aerodynamic bearings with elastically supported tilting pads have operational properties comparable with widely-used foil journal bearings. They combine the excellent stability of tilting pad bearings, as a result of very small cross-coupling stiffness terms, with the positive properties of foil bearings, namely their ability to adapt to changing operating conditions and presence of additional ...

In this paper, a thermo-hydrodynamic model of the bump foil thrust gas bearing is developed, which solves coupled film three-dimensional energy equation, non-isothermal Reynolds and deformation equation. The effects speed, load, external cooling on temperature field are calculated analyzed. test rig was built to measure under different working conditions. Both simulation experiment results show...