Vibration and Acoustic Emission of Linear-Guideway Type Recirculating Linear Ball Bearings With One Artificial Defect in the Carriage

In machines with linear-guideway type recirculating linear ball bearings (linear bearings), to prevent shutdown of machines caused by unexpected-failures of linear bearings, there has been an increasing demand for the development of defect (especially flaking) detection techniques of linear bearings by using vibration or acoustic emission (AE) measurements. Although studies [1–3] on vibrations of linear bearings without defects have been carried out, work on vibrations and AE of defective linear bearings are few [4, 5].Copyright © 2008 by ASME