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NoWear

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Presentation outline

What is NoWear? Why use NoWear? Material properties / Application triggers Suffixes Application examples

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What is NoWear?

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NoWear Improved service life through surface engineering

Eliminates or reduces wear when having:
Poor lubrication Unfavourable load/speed situation (smearing) Standstill vibrations (false brinelling) Contamination (abresive wear)

Increased life in demanding applications!

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What is NoWear?
Metal-Containing Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon Coating
Thickness 0,3 - 6 m depending on component size and geometry

Run-in

Run-in layer basically graphite Function layer WC-lamellas Adhesion layer designed by SKF

Function

Adhesion

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Why use NoWear?

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Why use NoWear?

NoWear - Abrasive wear reduction

Caused by

Lack of cleanliness before and during mounting operation Ineffective seals contaminated Lubricant

Consequences

Indentations on the raceway/rolling elements Dull, worn surfaces Grease discoloured green
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Earlier bearing failure

Why use NoWear?

Abrasive wear

Testing setup bearing SKF 29412E

Load C/P = 5
Speed 6 r/min Filtering every 24h
Std No. of particles >5um/25ml oil
1,E+05

No external particles In-line particle counting

NoWear

Particles after 8 days

1,E+06 1,E+05 1,E+04 1,E+03 1,E+02 1,E+01 Start Standard NoWear

1,E+04

1,E+03

1,E+02 0 24 48 72 96 120 144 168 192

>5 um > 15 um Particle size

Running time (h)

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Why use NoWear?

FT

Metal to metal contact High temperature in the contact Local micro welding Material transfer

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NoWear prolongs
NoWear prolongs bearing life because of:
No metal-to-metal contact

Specially developed and adopted for rolling contact Solid lubrication (graphitisation) Higher surface hardness

NoWear is not intended to improve:

Subsurface fatigue Electrical insulation Load rating Corrosion resistance

or if there is perfect lubrication film at all times

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Material properties / Application triggers

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Material properties

DRY

NoWear in relation to normal bearing steel surface

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Application triggers
Typically used in running situations with:
Unfavourable load & speed situation Standstill vibrations or applications with sliding or small relative motion Thin lubrication film (boundary lubrication) in combination with some sliding

which may results in surface damages like:

Adhesive wear (smearing) False brinelling Abrasive wear

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NoWear - Wear rate

Wear Volume Ball
(normalised to steel and measured after 2000 cycles)

Test setup

Fixed steel ball Coated/uncoated plate Dry Pressurized

1,2 1 0,8 0,6 0,4 0,2 0

Seizure at 2000 cycles

Steel NoWear

No seizure after 250 000 additional cycles

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Smearing resistance
22222 E/C3 bearing, suddenly applied load => rapid acceleration
Suspended
800.000 700.000 600.000

Steel

max. ndm

500.000 400.000 300.000 200.000 100.000 0 Steel Black oxid NoWear

Black oxid Failure Failure

NoWear

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Fafnir test NoWear vs. steel

18,0 16,0 14,0

Oscillation +/- 6

Average wear loss [mg]

12,0 10,0 8,0 6,0 4,0 2,0 0,0 Steel NoWear balls NoWear balls&rings

Result acc. to ASTM D4170

Avg. Loss cage & balls

Avg. Loss ring

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Wear depth after 800.000 revolutions

NoWear

Standard
NoWear --- Standard

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Suffixes

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NoWear - Suffixes
The most common execution for NoWear bearings, used in 95% of the cases:
L5DA coated rolling elements

Other configurations:

L1DA coated inner ring RW and outer ring RW L3DA coated inner ring RW L4DA coated inner ring RW, outer ring RW + rolling elements L6DA coated rolling elements and outer ring RW L7DA coated rolling elements and inner ring RW

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Application examples

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Application examples - Overview

Metal working
Gearbox Slab grinder
spindles

Pulp & Paper

Calenders Suction box Super Coater Winder roll Pulp refiner Dryer section

Marine

Pods Electric motors Shaft generators Gearboxes Waterjets

Formula 1

Backing bearing

Swing bridge

Industrial Fans

Wind turbines
Gearboxes

Gear wheels

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Heavy movable structures

Third Avenue Bridge, New York NoWear for operation reliability under marginal lubrication. Reduced friction of sliding rolling elements.

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Marine environment
Ship applications
Gearboxes Pods Electrical thruster motors Shaft generators

NoWear
For reliability and prolonged service life under false brinelling, low kappa and smearing conditions.

Customer comments: "NoWear is an upgrade for thruster motors, which enables increased MTBF (mean time between failure) and is especially well suited for the marine environment.

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KOUN Marine CO., LTD

KOUN Marine CO., Ltd Intermediate shaft between refrigeration compressor and electric motor

Solution
SKF NoWear DGBB

Benefits
Customer
Four times longer service life Reduced maintenance costs Reliable running between planned overhauls
Liquid ethylene chemical tanker

SKF
Clear recognition of SKF as the Knowledge
Engineering Company

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Hansen Transmission
Hansen Transmission Int. (Belgium) 2 & 3 MW windmill turbine gear units

Solution
SKF NoWear cylindrical roller bearing

Benefits
Customer
Improved service life Avoid damages at low load

SKF
Clear recognition of SKF as the Knowledge
Engineering Company

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