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Customer Support and
Design Services
Metrology
The construction and geometry of the bearing system, the housing, bearing and the shaft
are crucial to the bearing’s successful operation in the application.
Texture Measurement and Journal Geometry
3D surface profile measure- There is frequently a requirement for dimensional examination of the bearing environment at
ment using a non-contact, stages in the design and development process when product prototypes are constructed, or
laser based, 3D measuring later when design changes are being investigated.
system.
Glacier Vandervell Europe’s scientists and engineers are able to assist in this area of
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bearing assemblies. These measurements can provide a comprehensive account of the
assembled bearing condition and can identify situations which might threaten reliable
operation of the bearing system.
Glacier Vandervell Technical Such metrology is essential in the
Centres can extend this service understanding of bearing system
and provide a wide range of interactions, knowledge which is
measurements relevant to the fundamental to reliable designs.
bearing operating environment. Texture measurements largely
This can range from connecting utilise non-contact microscope
rod bore distortion tests on a based systems capable of two or
dedicated test rig and crankshaft three dimensional roughness and
journal geometry assessment to waviness measurements on both
sophisticated texture measure- flat and curved surfaces.
ments on journals, thrust faces or
other counterfaces. Methods of replicating, particularly
crankpin geometry and texture,
allow quantification of such aspects
by specially designed rig tests.
