Testing and FEA as prediction strategies on the ball bearings behaviour

Prediction strategies for the ball bearings behaviour are hard to identify and only in the theoretical way or only in the practical way (testing). The paper offers a combination of these two ways: a combination of practice – testing and theory – the finite element analysis in order to predict the _204 series ball bearings behaviour. The results from the tests are used as input data for the finite element analysis; the numerical results, from theory and from practice are used to predict the behaviour of the analysed ball bearings.