Mechanical Engineering - Machine Design - Discussion

Embeddability is the ability of the bearing lining material to absorb or embed within itself any of the larger of the small dirt particles present in a lubrication system. Poor embeddability permits particles circulating around the bearing to score both the bearing surface and the journal or shaft. Good embeddability will permit these particles to be trapped and forced in to the bearing surface and out of the way where they can do no harm.

Compatibility or antiscoring tendencies permit the shaft and bearing to "get along" with each other. It is the ability to resist galling or seizing under conditions of metal-tometal contact such as at startup. This characteristic is most truly a bearing property, because contact between the bearing and shaft in good designs occurs only at startup.

Conformability is defined as malleability or as the ability of the bearing material to creep or flow slightly under load, as in the initial stages of running, to permit the shaft and bearing contours to conform with the each other or to compensate for nonuniform loading
caused by misalignment.

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