This paper presents in practical, serviceable form the most important results obtainable from the hydrodynamic theory of the oil film. The general theoretical treatment is supplemented by numerical evaluations whereby the conditions for the maximum load and for the minimum friction are determined for the ideal bearing; and these results are reduced to apply to practical cases by means of approximate methods. Tables and graphs are given, by means of which the loads, the losses by friction, and other characteristics of specified bearing forms may be determined, and special consideration is given to the optimum conditions for more or less arbitrary bearing proportions.
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Albert Kingsbury (1932) studied this question.