New Way porous air bearing — flat round
Catalog performance data (load, stiffness, flow, mass) for New Way flat round porous-carbon air bearings, by diameter, at the vendor-fixed 60 psi supply and 5 µm fly height.
This is a literal lookup table, not a physics model — the "calculator" behind it is a piecewise if/else chain over the diameter selector, each branch just assigning fixed vendor spec-sheet numbers. No unit conversion is computed either: the metric and imperial columns are independently tabulated catalog values, not derived from each other. See newway-porous-bushing.ts for the companion bushing (sleeve) product line — different geometry (adds outer diameter and length), different fixed fly height (4 µm vs 5 µm here), and a different diameter range.
Methode & referenties
- New Way Air Bearings — flat round porous-carbon air bearing catalog performance data (www.newwayairbearings.com).
- All figures are published at a fixed 60 psi (0.41 MPa) supply pressure and 5 µm fly height — not adjustable, per the vendor data sheet and the original calculator’s own warning.
De berekening is een letterlijke overzetting van de originele client-side JavaScript van /calculators/newway_flat_round.htm. Resultaten zijn geverifieerd gelijk aan het origineel via een geautomatiseerde golden-master-test. Geen enkele formule is opnieuw afgeleid of “verbeterd”.