Helps you solve your bearing design problems with step-by-step procedures and hard-won performance data from a leading expert and consultant. Compiled for ease of use in practical design scenarios, this title provides the basic principles, design procedures and data you need to create the right bearing solution for your requirements.

Bearings are commonly used in mechanical devices and machinery to allow constrained relative motion between two or more parts. Reducing friction in bearings is important for efficiency to reduce wear and facilitate extended use at high speed, making bearing design, tribology and lubrication heavily interlinked topics. Different design scenarios require the use of different types of bearing and different forms of bearing lubrication. It can be difficult to get off-the-shelf bearings that exactly suit a manufacturer's specialist machinery design requirements, which means that many end up designing their own bearings to suit their particular needs. This book covers the specific knowledge and expertise needed to design hydrostatic, hybrid and aerostatic bearings for incorporation into overall machinery designs. Design failure, be it at the prototype or product stage, is expensive and can result in machinery downtime that incurs even greater costs. Compiled for ease of use in practical design scenarios, Hydrostatic, Aerostatic and Hybrid Bearing Design provides engineers, tribologists and students with the basic principles, specialist design procedures and essential design data needed to create an effective and reliable bearing solution to suit their design requirements.