Ceramic Bearing Material

Balls made from this material are hard up to rc78 and have a very smooth surface.

Ceramic bearing material.

The most common arrangement is a hybrid bearing usually with stainless steel rings and ceramic balls. 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. Bearings made with ceramic materials fall into a specialty niche in the bearing industry. Furthermore the weight of ceramic bearings is also lighter.

Full ceramic bearings are usually made of following materials. Zirconia oxide bearings silicon nitride bearings and hybrid bearings ceramic steel or chrome. Silicon nitride sin4 alumina oxide al2o3 zirconia oxide zro2 silicon carbide sic. Ceramic is the perfect material for any application seeking to achieve higher rpm s reduce overall weight or for extremely harsh environments where high temperatures and corrosive substances are present.

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. Full ceramic bearings have races and balls that are made entirely of ceramic material and are superior to common steel bearings in many ways. Hybrid bearings consist of ceramic rolling elements in steel races whilst all ceramic bearings have both races and rolling elements made from ceramic.

Types of ceramic bearings offered by sceram sceram offers all standards of ceramic bearings in three different material categories.