Research on Optimal Design and Processing of High-Speed Ceramic Ball Bearings without Inner Rings

Abstract

Under the background that modern machine tools have higher requirements to the spindle system, the accuracy, stiffness, critical speed and dynamic stability of the spindle bearing also put forward higher requirements. Traditional steel spindle has been difficult to meet the needs, because of its inherent characteristics. Advanced ceramics have excellent performance, such as low density, low thermal expansion coefficient, high stiffness, wear resistance and good chemical and thermal stability, which can meet the requirements of modern machine tool spindle to the performance of bearing material. The longest fatigue life is the objective function, the calculation method of the ceramic bearing optimal design is the external point method of penalty function, and the all-ceramic bearings without inner rings are successfully manufactured by the advanced manufacturing technology. Finally, the high-speed ceramic motorized spindle prototype was assembled with high precision successfully, and its performance test and analysis were finished, the results show that using the all-ceramic bearing can effectively improve the rotation accuracy and rotational stiffness of the spindle-bearing system.

Optimal design of deep-groove ball bearings based on multitude of objectives using evolutionary algorithms

“…The GA-DE algorithm could find better dynamic rating than the binary genetic algorithm. Li et al (2014) described the optimal design of the ceramic ball bearing under high-speed conditions with the greatest fatigue life as the design criterion. The calculation method of the optimal design of the ceramic bearing was the external point method with penalty functions.…”