Blog | OAV Air Bearings

The Role of OAV Air Bearings in the Future of Clean Energy

Air Bearings are often used in manufacturing, transportation, metrology, and many other industries where precision and ease of movement...

Air Bearing in Metrology

Air bearings are a crucial component of metrology, the science of measuring and characterizing physical quantities. These bearings use a...

Insights on OAV Air Bearings for high-speed-high-temperature Turbomachinery

To address the environmental issues arising from the disposal of exhausted lubricating oils/grease of conventional oil journal/rolling...

A Finite Element Analysis of OAV Air Bearings Used in Ultra-high Speed Spindles

"Imagine you have a spindle that can run over 500K plus RPM, less than 1 millionths of an inches (.025 microns) precision with no oil or...

OAV for nanonewton and micro force control applications and testing

Micro and nano-scale sensing became of primary importance for efficient characterization of nanostructures such as semiconductors,...

What happens to Air bearing systems when the air supply suddenly shuts off?

How can graphite and diamond be so different if they are both composed of pure carbon?

OAV to Disruptive Innovation

Why is Innovation essential? Markets are primarily responsive to profitability and quality. Innovation is essential to one’s ability to r

Top Five Challenges Mechanical Engineers Face and Air Bearing Solutions

As time passes and technology continues to advance at an ever-increasing rate, being a mechanical engineer, even a successful one, has...