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Performance of textured spherical thrust hybrid bearing operating with shear thinning and piezoviscous lubricants

Improving the lubricating performance of tribo-pairs using engineering textured surfaces has been the main focus of tribology research in recent years. The use of a suitably designed micro-texture on the bearing surface may have a beneficial effect on the performance of fluid film bearings. In the present paper, a mathematical model of a hybrid spherical thrust bearing is developed considering the effect of shear thinning and piezoviscous behaviour of a lubricant. The modified Reynolds equation for a hybrid spherical thrust bearing configuration together with a restrictor flow equation for a capillary restrictor is solved using a finite-element method. In this work, the effect of various micro-textures shapes (spherical, circular, conical and square) and non-Newtonian lubricant behaviour having shear thinning and piezoviscous effects are analysed. The numerically simulated result shows a strong dependence on the combined effect of shear thinning and piezoviscous lubricant behaviour and a chosen geometric shape of a texture. The frictional power loss is seen to reduce nearly by 24.05%, and the stiffness gets enhanced by 11.08%.