The paper deals with a class of bearings called self adjusting hydrodynamic bearings. The construction of these bearing is such that the bearing clearance adjusts itself depending upon the speed. This feature improves the performance of the bearing. These bearings have preloading facility also. The constructional features and working mechanism of these bearings are presented along with brief design procedures.
The paper reports on an investigation into the various aspects of cold forging of iron powder preforms which have been compacted and sintered from atomised iron powder. The influence of particle size, compacting pressure, sintering temperature and forging parameters on relative density of the preform was investigated. Experiments were conducted and measurements were made on the development of barrelling and strain variations at the free surface. Cracks were also observed at the free surface of the perform. The deformation characteristics and fracture mechanism is discussed critically to illustrate the interaction of various parameters involved and the results are presented graphically.