The invention discloses a fine gap-adjustable tilting pad bearing and a control method, and belongs to the technical field of bearings, and the fine gap-adjustable tilting pad bearing comprises a bearing body, pads, pre-tightening screws, set screws, a cover plate, a displacement amplification structure, pre-tightening bolts, elastic gaskets and piezoelectric
ceramic stacks. A plurality of tilting pads are arranged on the inner arc surface of the bearing body and are matched with the bearing body through a spherical support; four radial grooves are formed in the outer arc face in the circumferential direction and are opposite to the centers of the four tile blocks respectively. A notch of the radial groove is connected with a cover plate, is internally provided with a piezoelectric
ceramic displacement amplification mechanism and is connected with the spherical support through a positioning pin; a piezoelectric
ceramic stack is arranged between a left boss and a right boss of the mechanism and is pre-tightened by a pre-tightening bolt and an elastic
gasket. According to the invention, the inverse piezoelectric effect of piezoelectric ceramics is utilized, a vibration and non-linear suppression method is provided, an advanced
control algorithm is matched, the piezoelectric ceramics stack is electrified and contracted, a displacement amplification effect is generated through a displacement amplification mechanism, the tile gap is finely adjusted, and the high-
performance requirement of modern rotating machinery is met.