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Operational Theory Force On Crosshead Guides

The force on crosshead guides in a ship engine varies throughout the piston stroke. It is maximum at around 20-25 degrees after top dead center when cylinder pressure is highest and the connecting rod angle is greatest. The document provides a table showing how the thrust on guides changes with crank angle for a sample engine, peaking at 23 degrees after top dead center. It also notes that piston inertia effects are not fully accounted for in the simple calculation.

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Operational Theory Force On Crosshead Guides

The force on crosshead guides in a ship engine varies throughout the piston stroke. It is maximum at around 20-25 degrees after top dead center when cylinder pressure is highest and the connecting rod angle is greatest. The document provides a table showing how the thrust on guides changes with crank angle for a sample engine, peaking at 23 degrees after top dead center. It also notes that piston inertia effects are not fully accounted for in the simple calculation.

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Force on Crosshead Guides http://www.marinediesels.co.uk/Theory/Thrust_on_Crosshead_Guides.

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Operational Theory
Force on Crosshead Guides

Other Pages The Basics The 2 Stroke Engine The 4 Stroke Engine Operation Members

The force on the crosshead guides varies during the stroke of the piston. At Top Dead Centre when the gas load on the
piston acts vertically downwards, there is no side component of thrust. However as the piston starts to move downwards
and the angle the connecting rod makes with the vertical increases, so the component of side thrust increases. Although as
a percentage of piston force, the guide force is at a maximum at 90 ATDC, the gas force on the piston at this point is
relatively low. By using a spreadsheet the guide force component can be calculated for any crank angle. The point at
which it is a maximum will depend on a number of factors, primarily crank angle at which max cylinder pressure occurs,
and con rod/crank length ratio, but is usually between 20 - 25 ATDC.

Note: for 100% accuracy the inertia load on the piston should also be taken into account. This is subtracted from the gas
load on the piston as the piston is accelerating downwards and added as the piston de-accelerates. This however would
complicate the calculation.

The table shows the thrust on the guides for a


960mm bore engine with a stroke of 2.5 metres and
a conrod length of 2.88 metres.
Maximum guide force occurs at 23 ATDC

Cylinder
Press Piston Thrust on Crank
(Bar) Force (kN) Guides (kN) Angle
106.4 7701.476 0.0 0
107.8 7802.811 59.1 1
109.8 7947.576 120.4 2
111.8 8092.341 183.9 3
114.2 8266.058 250.4 4
116.9 8461.49 320.3 5
119.7 8664.161 393.5 6
122.5 8866.831 469.7 7
125.2 9062.263 548.4 8
128.1 9272.172 631.0 9
130.4 9438.651 713.4 10
131.7 9532.748 792.2 11
132.6 9597.892 869.7 12
132.6 9597.892 941.6 13
131.4 9511.034 1004.2 14
129.8 9395.222 1062.1 15
127.7 9243.219 1113.8 16
124.7 9026.072 1154.7 17
121.7 8808.925 1192.2 18
118.6 8584.54 1225.3 19
114.8 8309.487 1247.3 20
111.2 8048.911 1267.4 21
107.4 7773.858 1281.0 22
103.5 7491.568 1289.2 23
98.5 7129.656 1278.7 24
94.6 6847.365 1277.7 25
91.9 6651.933 1289.2 26
88.1 6376.88 1281.7 27
84.4 6109.066 1271.5 28
80.9 5855.728 1260.4 29
77.7 5624.104 1250.3 30
62.9 4552.846 1170.3 35
51.5 3727.688 1083.0 40

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35.2 2547.857 898.2 50
29.8 2156.992 820.5 55
25.6 1852.987 751.6 60
22.2 1606.887 687.5 65
19.6 1418.693 633.7 70
17.5 1266.69 584.9 75
15.8 1143.64 540.7 80
14.5 1049.543 503.3 85
13.3 962.6845 463.8 90

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