Tilting pad bearing is one of the key parts of the high parameters rotating machinery.It is often happened for temperature to exceed the standard value,which may cause unit downtime or failure.So it is necessary to carry out realtime monitoring of the temperature and to give remedial measures timely.Through the analysis of the tilting pad bearing lubrication characteristics including temperature distribution and the oil film pressure distribution,supplemented by the minimum oil film thickness analysis,a multipoints correlation measurement method of tilting pad bearings was proposed which was composed by the method of two kinds of feature points,the temperature collaborative measurement of characteristic points and temperature independent measuring of special points.The tilting pad bearing of a unit was tested by the multipoints correlation measurement method,and a large number temperature realtime data of main bearing tile and side bearing tile were obtained.Experimental results show that main pad temperature is increased with the increasing of speed,and the highest temperature appears at the near outlets of the pads.Vice pad temperature has the same changing trend as the main pad’s.Pad temperature changes greatly after the jacking oil removed,which indicates that the pad temperature is related closely to the static pressure and dynamic pressure effect.Experiments show the feasibility of multipoints correlation measurement method,it provides an effective method to governing the excessive temperature of bearings.