Lubrication of a rotating circular thrust bearing with a casson lubricant

Lubricants today are subjected to increasing mechanical shearing forces. This has resulted in an increasing interest in materials having variable viscosity. The problem of rotating circular thrust bearing is investigated with Casson fluid as a shear thinning lubricant. The pressure and load capacity of the thrust bearing is calculated when the feeding is done from the centre of the plates to the periphery. Also, moment of friction acting on the plates is calculated for different values of Casson number and for various values of ratio of inside to outside radius. It has been found that there is a decrease in the value of load capacity of the Casson lubricant. Also, it has been observed that there is an appreciable increase in the values of moment of friction for Casson fluid.