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There are two kinds of lubrication for the bearings, oil and grease lubrications. In fact, the base oil dissolved in grease is separated from grease due to the centrifugal force of oil at increasing oil temperatures, and it is in fact used to lubricate the rolling bearings (cf. Chap. 5). As a result, the oil-film thickness is created between the rolling elements (balls and rollers) and raceways to keep the rotating rotor in balance with the external forces acting upon it.
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Nguyen-Schäfer, H. (2016). Oil-Film Thickness in Rolling Bearings. In: Computational Design of Rolling Bearings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27131-6_4
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