An elastic deformation model of high speed spindles built into ball bearings

Kinematic characteristics and elastic deformation properties of ball bearings such as stiffness, axial, and radial deflections of the rings, speeds of balls, contact angles, and loads, all vary strongly with rotational speed, temperature, and axial preload. This paper presents an elastic deformation model of spindle units built into ball bearings, which are running on high rotational speed and axial preload. For this, software for simulation of the high speed spindle units was developed and introduced into a practical use. A computer aided analysis of the model was carried out and experiments were made, which showed a significant effect of high rotational speed, cutting load, bearing axial preload, and a new effect for which the criteria for a choice of bearing preload are given. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.