There is a significant attention on GFBs in recent times owing to its oil free technology and suitability over a wide arrays of operating conditions. However GFBs have considerably low load carrying capacity as compared to a normal gas bearings (GBs). The present paper investigated the static analysis and comparison of the load capacity of the bump-type GFBs for a simple foil configuration considering only deflection of bump foils. Different foil materials has been inspected in view of comparing the steady state load capacity. Also the variations of GFBs load performance with respect to the compliance of the foil have been reviewed. Keywords: Gas foil bearings, Static analysis, Steady state load capacity, foil compliance coefficient.
