Ball and Roller Bearings.

Malcolm Low

Bearing use and manufacture.

FAG Bearings, courtesy of Schaeffler UK. Courtesy of SKF Bearings.

Bearings are used in washing machines, spin dryers, electric motors, manufacturing and engineering machinery, conveyor systems, cranes, excavators, cars, buses, motor cycles, bicycles, railtrains, boats, ships, aeroplanes, helicopters, the Ferris wheel of the London Eye, aerospace applications, turn tables, skate boards, roller skates, fishing reels, roller ball ink pens and roll-on deodorant, you name it anything that moves will have a bearing of one kind or another.

Courtesy of SRB Bearings.

FAG Bearings, courtesy of Schaeffler UK.

Bearings are manufactured in various designs: Ball, Roller, Taper Roller, Needle, Linear Motion, Split bearings, Spherical Plain Bearings and Transmission Bearing Units. A brief description of the designs and their application is described in the research paper.

Malcolm Low can be contacted on email: m.low1@ntlworld.com