Wear failure of a leaded bronze bearing: correlation between plant experience and laboratory wear test data

• Main Authors: Ahsan, Q., Haseeb, A.S. Md. Abdul, Haque, E., Celis, Jean Pierre
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer Verlag (Germany) 2003
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/5777/; https://doi.org/10.1361/105994903770343150
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

This paper describes an investigation on the failure of a large leaded bronze bearing that supports a nine-ton roller of a plastic calendering machine. At the end of the normal service life of a good bearing, which lasted for seven years, a new bearing was installed. However the new one failed catas...