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    Crossheads & Connecting Rods

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    The document discusses crosshead design and lubrication challenges in piston engines. Older crosshead designs concentrated load at the center of the lower bearing half, causing deflection and failure. An earlier solution offset the bearing supports to allow flexibility and alignment with the pin under load. Modern engines use external pumps and telescopic supply pipes to provide hydrostatic lubrication to the crosshead, addressing inherent lubrication problems.

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    Crossheads & Connecting Rods

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    Abdallah Mansour
    231 views10 pages
    The document discusses crosshead design and lubrication challenges in piston engines. Older crosshead designs concentrated load at the center of the lower bearing half, causing deflection and failure. An earlier solution offset the bearing supports to allow flexibility and alignment with the pin under load. Modern engines use external pumps and telescopic supply pipes to provide hydrostatic lubrication to the crosshead, addressing inherent lubrication problems.

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    Cross Head of diesel engine

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    Cross Head 3

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    The document discusses crosshead design and lubrication challenges in piston engines. Older crosshead designs concentrated load at the center of the lower bearing half, causing deflection and failure. An earlier solution offset the bearing supports to allow flexibility and alignment with the pin under load. Modern engines use external pumps and telescopic supply pipes to provide hydrostatic lubrication to the crosshead, addressing inherent lubrication problems.

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    Crossheads & Connecting Rods

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    Abdallah Mansour
    The document discusses crosshead design and lubrication challenges in piston engines. Older crosshead designs concentrated load at the center of the lower bearing half, causing deflection and failure. An earlier solution offset the bearing supports to allow flexibility and alignment with the pin under load. Modern engines use external pumps and telescopic supply pipes to provide hydrostatic lubrication to the crosshead, addressing inherent lubrication problems.

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    Crossheads & Connecting

    Rods
    Construction and Lubrication

    Crosshead Design & Lubrication


    Load always on
    LOWER half of
    bearing
    Upstroke
    compression
    pressure
    Downstroke
    firing pressure
    Hydrodynamic
    lubrication not
    possible

    Deflection of Crosshead Pin


    With lower half of
    bearing in two parts
    and load
    concentrated at
    centre - high
    localised loading
    Deflection
    Combined with
    inherent lubrication
    problem
    Failure

    Load Bearing & Lubrication Problems


    Old Design

    Top End

    Piston Rod

    Shoe: 0.03-0.1(0.15 max)


    Cover
    plate
    Bearings
    Clrn: 0.4-0.55
    (0.6 max)

    Pin

    Oil to Bottom End

    Piston Rod Nut


    Con Rod

    Sulzer Crosshead - RND

    Earlier Solution to Problem of XHead Failures


    1.

    2.

    Under deflection load


    is localised at inner
    edges of both shells
    To overcome this,
    bearing supports
    offset making them
    flexible allowing them
    to align themselves
    with the pin

    Early method of using


    increased oil pressure
    to provide hydrostatic
    lubrication
    Nowadays effected by
    external electric
    driven pump and/or
    utilising the pumping
    effect of the
    telescopic supply pipe

    Crosshead & Connecting


    Rod

    B&W MC

    Piston, Rod & Stuffing


    Box

    Sulzer RTA

    To Piston Crown
    From Piston
    Crown
    Luboil In

    Luboil Out

    To, From
    Piston
    Crown

    Oil In

    Oil Out

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