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Wire-race bearings are a non-conventional type of bearings where the rolling process takes place over a race shaped in a wire. This design allows building the rings with lighter materials and innovative ring designs. Despite the wide range of applications where wire-race bearings can be the best option, no specific analysis tools have been developed yet. There are several analytical tools for conventional bearings, which obtain the stiffness, the effect of the preload and the static load capacity among others. In this work a simplified analytical model is proposed for a wire-race ball bearing, and comparatively validated via Finite Element Analysis.
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Martín, I., Heras, I., Aguirrebeitia, J., Abasolo, M., Coria, I. (2019). Analytical Model for the Estimation of Axial Stiffness and Contact Results in Wire Race Ball Bearings. In: Uhl, T. (eds) Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science. IFToMM WC 2019. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 73. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20131-9_384
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