The analysis of the forces and the rigidity of roller bearings is a multi-body contact problem, so it cannot be solved by contact boundary element method (BEM) for two elastic bodies. Based on the three-dimensional elastic contact BEM, according to the character of roller bearing, the new solution given in this paper replaces the roller body with a plate element and traction subelement. Linear elements are used in non-contact areas and a quadratic element is used in the contact area. The load distribution among the roller bodies and the load status in the inner rolling body can be extracted.

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