Selected Problems of Experimental Testing Marine Stern Tube Bearings

Agnieszka Barszczewska; Ewa Piątkowska; Wojciech Litwin

doi:10.2478/pomr-2019-0034

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Selected Problems of Experimental Testing Marine Stern Tube Bearings

Polish Maritime Research

Volume 26 (2019): Issue 2 (June 2019)

By: Agnieszka Barszczewska, Ewa Piątkowska and Wojciech Litwin

Open Access

|Jul 2019

Abstract

This paper presents typical methods for conducting experimental tests on main shaft slide bearings. There are described their possible testing capabilities, advantages, drawbacks and limitations. Various testing methods were analyzed to find a solution able of providing a wide range of possible investigations at possibly acceptable limitations.

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