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Survey of Experimental Data for Fixed Geometry Hydrodynamic Journal Bearings

Swanson, E.E., Kirk, R.G.

ASME Journal of Tribology, 119, 1997, pp.704-710.

ABSTRACT
An extensive survey of the experimental research on the static and/or dynamic characteristics of fixed geometry, hydrodynamic journal bearings available in English, in the open literature is presented.  The type(s) of bearing, size of bearing(s) and range of parameters measured in each work are reported for slightly over 100 published experimental works.  In addition, some general observations about the available experimental data sets are made.  This annotated survey is intended to help the analytical community by providing an extensive list of sources of experimental data for use in analysis verification.  It is intended to help the experimental community by  highlighting the shortcomings of the available literature, as well as by providing a list of sources for appropriate data to help with current and future test rig debugging.

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