Aerostatic bearings have been employed as an essential precision engineering element
and enabling technology in numerous applications requiring precision and ultraprecision …

In aerostatic thrust bearings (ATBs), a high-pressure gas film with a certain bearing capacity
and stiffness is formed by passing high-pressure gas between the moving surface and the …

The influences of six orifice chamber configurations on performance characteristics of
aerostatic thrust bearings under various operating conditions are thoroughly studied using …

Recently, laser beam machining and micro drills have made it easier to manufacture small
feed holes of less than 0.1 mm diameter. Accordingly, aerostatic bearings with these small …

The fluid-structure interaction (FSI) phenomenon has significant impact on the performance
of aerostatic thrust bearings. To rapidly calculate their performance, this paper proposes a …

The stiffness of various geometric designs of aerostatic journal bearings for high-speed
spindles was investigated under different operating conditions. First, the stiffness of the front …

To improve the load performance of externally pressurized gas journal bearings (EPGJBs),
the influences of structural parameters of pressure-equalizing grooves (PEGs) such as the …

Determining film pressure by solving the Reynolds equation is more effective than
conducting bearing experiments or computational fluid dynamics simulations. The Reynolds …

For the dynamic and static characteristics of the gas static thrust bearing with micro-hole
restrictors, a gas static thrust bearing with micro-hole restrictors was designed …

Insufficient load capacity and stiffness of aerostatic bearings with traditional inherent orifices
is limiting their applications. Recently, the aerostatic bearing with close-spaced micro holes …