High temperature aircraft turbine engine bearing and lubrication system development
- Pratt and Whitney, West Palm Beach, FL (United States). United Technologies
- Air Force, Dayton, OH (United States). Wright Lab.
- MRC Bearings, Jamestown, NY (United States)
Results are reported for a project sponsored by the US Air Force Wright Laboratories. The major emphasis of this project was the evaluation of bearing materials with improved corrosion resistance, high hot hardness, and high fracture toughness, intended to meet the requirements of the Integrated High Performance Turbine Engine Technologies (IHPTET) Phase 2 engine. The project included material property studies on candidate bearing materials and lubricants which formed the selection basis for subscale and full-scale bearing rig verification tests. The carburizing stainless steel alloy Pyrowear 675 demonstrated significant fatigue life, fracture toughness, and corrosion resistance improvements relative to the M50 NiL baseline bearing material. The new Skylube 2 (MCS-2482) lubricant provided significant thermal degradation improvements with respect to the Skylube 600 (PWA-524, MIL-L-87100) lubricant. Two 130 mm bore Pyrowear 675 hybrid ball bearings with silicon nitride balls were run successfully for 231 hours with Skylube 2 lubricant at temperatures consistent with IHPTET 2 requirements.
- OSTI ID:
- 316182
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9611259--; ISBN 0-8031-2421-X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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