Ceramic Bearing Material

These bearings offer several benefits over conventional steel bearings including enhanced acceleration capability increased stiffness and reduced friction.

Ceramic bearing material.

There are a number of commercially available ceramic bearing types grouped into one of two categories. Ceramic bearings hard surfaces at high temperatures waukesha bearings applies ceramic and cermet ceramic metallic composite materials to thrust and journal bearing designs to extend bearing capabilities in applications where traditional materials and polymers fall short. Typically all ceramic bearings are used in specialist high temperature high speed applications where the design requirements are very strict and hence can be costly. Furthermore the weight of ceramic bearings is also lighter.

Full ceramic bearings have races and balls that are made entirely of ceramic material and are superior to common steel bearings in many ways. Zirconia oxide bearings silicon nitride bearings and hybrid bearings ceramic steel or chrome. We construct the rolling elements in ceramic bearings using several ceramic materials including silicon nitride si3n4 aluminum oxide al2o3 zirconium oxide zro2 silicon carbide sic applications that involve high speeds and high loads often involve ceramic bearings. Hybrid bearings consist of ceramic rolling elements in steel races whilst all ceramic bearings have both races and rolling elements made from ceramic.

Balls made from this material are hard up to rc78 and have a very smooth surface. Full ceramic bearings are usually made of following materials. Silicon nitride sin4 alumina oxide al2o3 zirconia oxide zro2 silicon carbide sic. Types of ceramic bearings offered by sceram sceram offers all standards of ceramic bearings in three different material categories.

Bearings made with ceramic materials fall into a specialty niche in the bearing industry.