All machines with moving parts have bearings of some type. The bearings may be as simple as flat surfaces working against other flat surfaces, such as the slideway in a machine tool, or they may have sophisticated geometries like a ball screw. Plain and element...
What Causes Wear? Contamination has frequently been identified as one of the major causes of premature wear on rotating machines. If all other root causes, such as the alignment, balance, and mounting integrity, have been checked, then the other major influences are...
