“…However, due to the restriction of many factors, such as the sealing of film space, the structures of bearing, the formation mechanism of film and so on, the actual monitoring on film pressure is too difficult to be achieved. Therefore, most of the studies on film pressure of water-lubricated bearing are numerical calculation or simulation (Majumdar et al, 2004;Ma et al, 2007;Tanamal, 2007;Hua, 2009;Liang, 2009;Lu, 2010;Wang et al, 2011;Liu, 2012;Santos et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2013;Gao et al, 2014), and the experimental studies are relatively few. Unfortunately, because of the physical and mathematical approximations in numerical calculation and simulation, the calculated film pressure and other important parameters, such as film thickness, film stiffness, film damping and so on, can not reflect the actual bearing properties.…”