{"id":210709,"date":"2025-04-06T14:05:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-50-year-old-theory-in-mechanics-has-been-confirmed"},"modified":"2025-04-06T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:05:58","slug":"a-50-year-old-theory-in-mechanics-has-been-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-50-year-old-theory-in-mechanics-has-been-confirmed","title":{"rendered":"A 50-year-old theory in mechanics has been confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-50-year-old-theory-in-mechanics-has-been-confirmed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The narrow groove theory was proposed in 1965 by J. H. Vohr and C. Y. Chow, two engineers at New York-based Mechanical Technology, Inc. The theory explains the working of herringbone grooved journal bearings, or HGJBs \u2013 a type of air-lubricated bearing that supports rotating parts in mechanical systems.<\/p>\n<p><center>- Advertisement -<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Many different types of bearings exist, but HGJBs hold the most promise for developing ultrahigh-speed rotating machines because the rotor is supported on a cushion of air generated by the rotating shaft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The narrow groove theory was proposed in 1965 by J. H. Vohr and C. Y. Chow, two engineers at New York-based Mechanical Technology, Inc. The theory explains the working of herringbone grooved journal bearings, or HGJBs \u2013 a type of air-lubricated bearing that supports rotating parts in mechanical systems. \u2014 Advertisement \u2014 Many different types [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}