Fluid bearings are bearings in which the load is supported by a thin layer of rapidly moving pressurized liquid or gas between the bearing surfaces. Since...

friction and wear; Fluid bearing, a noncontact bearing in which the load is supported by a gas or liquid (i.e. air bearing); Magnetic bearing, in which the...

A plain bearing, or more commonly sliding contact bearing and slide bearing (in railroading sometimes called a solid bearing, journal bearing, or friction...

of thrust bearing in an automobile is the clutch "throw out" bearing, sometimes called the clutch release bearing.[clarification needed] Fluid-film thrust...

require no external pressurisation system for the working fluid, so the hydrodynamic bearing is self-starting. Foil bearings were first developed in the...

areas; fluid power systems today are usually within a single building or mobile machine. Fluid power systems perform work by a pressurized fluid bearing directly...

Wheel bearing may refer to: Ball bearing Bearing (mechanical) Fluid bearing Jewel bearing Journal bearing Needle roller bearing Plain bearing Rolling-element...

were called journal bearings and relied on the lubricant to form a fluid bearing. Without adequate lubrication, journal bearings would fail due to the...

lubricant which still forces the two moving surfaces apart to achieve "fluid bearing" conditions is desired. If the lubricant is too viscous, it will require...

water Parafoil, a non-rigid airfoil, inflated during use Foil bearing, a type of fluid bearing Foil (architecture), decorative device derived from cusps of...

the journal in its shell and cools the bearings. Such a bearing is known as a fluid bearing. Oil pressure is higher when the engine is cold due to the...

ball bearing is a type of rolling-element bearing that uses balls to maintain the separation between the bearing races. The purpose of a ball bearing is...

Pal'Yanov, N.; Sokol, A.G.; Borzdov, M.; Khokhryakov, A.F. (2002). "Fluid-bearing alkaline carbonate melts as the medium for the formation of diamonds...

accurately position the read/write heads. The spinning of the disks uses fluid-bearing spindle motors. Modern disk firmware is capable of scheduling reads...

friction, and so on. Other bearing designs are often better on one specific attribute, but worse in most other attributes, although fluid bearings can sometimes...

Babbitt metal or bearing metal is any of several alloys used for the bearing surface in a plain bearing. The original Babbitt alloy was invented in 1839...

to describe the pressure distribution in nearly any type of fluid film bearing; a bearing type in which the bounding bodies are fully separated by a thin...

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Bearing pressure is a particular case of contact mechanics often occurring in cases where a convex surface (male cylinder or sphere) contacts a concave...

A fluid coupling or hydraulic coupling is a hydrodynamic or 'hydrokinetic' device used to transmit rotating mechanical power. It has been used in automobile...

lubrication, external pressure is applied to the lubricant in the bearing to maintain the fluid lubricant film where it would otherwise be squeezed out. In...

excess synovial fluid build-up in the knee joint. These may include: Osteoarthritis knee pain usually occurs while the joint is bearing weight, so the...

A hydraulic fluid or hydraulic liquid is the medium by which power is transferred in hydraulic machinery. Common hydraulic fluids are based on mineral...

In fluid mechanics, or more generally continuum mechanics, incompressible flow (isochoric flow) refers to a flow in which the material density of each...

density around the body, the fluid velocity and an associated reference area. A lifting body is a foil or a complete foil-bearing body such as a fixed-wing...

Around 1890, the modern fluid bearing was invented, now universally used to support heavy water turbine spindles. As of 2002, fluid bearings appear to have...

Automatic transmission fluid (ATF) is a hydraulic fluid that is essential for the proper functioning of vehicles equipped with automatic transmissions...

engines. They also produce other fluids including gear oil, transmission fluid, power steering fluid and industrial gear, bearing, engine, and hydraulic oil...

lugnuts". A common fool's errand is to send someone to get "blinker fluid" or "turn-signal fluid" from an automotive parts store. In baseball, a manager or a...

his poems he gave. His poetic gift, as well as his fluent voice and fluid bearing, fitted him admirably for this double role of troubadour and jongleur...