Executive decision
The operating point is separated from the first critical family, but the public evidence basis supports screening—not release.
The calculation provides a defensible direction for detailed engineering. It does not authorize manufacturing release, performance guarantee or final validation.
Current decisionPROCEED TO DETAILED ENGINEERINGDo not freeze the design on this evidence alone.
2 · Controlled basis
Input state carried with the result.
Journal radius15mm
Bearing length30mm
Radial clearance30µm
Supply pressure6bar
Operating speed20,000rpm
Feed architecture12 × 2orifices × rows
Restrictor diameter0.5mm
Case identifierAURA-PS-J15-20Kpublic controlled case
A customer package would also record coordinate basis, gas state, load basis, geometry revision, assumptions, supplied evidence and agreed exclusions.
3 · Bearing result
Calculated support coefficients at the stated operating point.
Kxx39.18 N/µm
Kxy+10.26 N/µm
Kyx−10.26 N/µm
Kyy39.18 N/µm
These coefficients are presented as state-dependent engineering outputs, not portable material properties. Their meaning depends on the attached geometry, clearance, pressure, coordinate convention and method basis.
4 · Rotor consequence
The selected support state is carried into the machine-level screen.
Operating speed20,000rpm
First critical family29,780rpm
Separation margin48.9%relative to operating speed
Physical screenPASSfor the controlled case
The value of the package is the connected chain: bearing state → rotor model → physical consequence → evidence-bounded decision.
5 · Decision boundary
What this result may and may not support.
Supported now
- Use the case as a first-approximation design direction.
- Proceed to detailed CAD/CAE and controlled geometry definition.
- Identify the next validation evidence required.
- Compare the operating point with the first critical family.
Not supported now
- Final manufacturing release.
- Universal performance guarantee.
- Transfer of coefficients to a different operating state.
- Replacement of detailed thermal, structural or experimental validation.
6 · Required next action
Convert the screening result into higher-authority engineering evidence.
- Freeze the detailed geometry and coordinate basis.
- Confirm thermal state, tolerances and gas-supply assumptions.
- Run detailed CAD/CAE/CFD where the uncertainty justifies it.
- Attach measurement or test evidence to the decision-critical claims.
- Re-run the connected bearing-and-rotor decision at the controlled release state.
Illustrative sample generated from the public AURA-PS-J15-20K controlled case. Breshev Engineering · AURA Engineering Platform.