Tilting-pad (Michell) bearing — rectangular pad
Load capacity, friction coefficient and film-thickness/eccentricity numbers for a rectangular Michell tilting-pad bearing, sized as a compromise between minimum friction and maximum film thickness.
Load capacity, F2.323200000000001 kN
Coefficient of friction, µ = Fₓ/F0.0014204545454545453
Friction number, F_f*2.5
Film thickness number, h₀*0.22
Pivot eccentricity number, ε = e/B0.15
The L/B = 2 option in the legacy dropdown has no matching lookup branch in the original JavaScript; selecting it left the pad coefficients (and everything derived from them) undefined. This port reproduces that quirk rather than filling in a value the original never defined.
Method & references
- Michell (tilting-pad) rectangular bearing, compromise design (minimum friction / maximum film thickness).
The computation is a literal port of the original client-side JavaScript from /calculators/e9_1.htm. Results are verified equal to the original by an automated golden-master test. No formula has been re-derived or “improved”.