Hydrodynamic plain bearing

A hydrodynamic plain bearing, comprising:

• a bearing shell having an inner surface forming a bearing surface for a rotating shaft;
• said bearing surface being formed with a multiplicity of surface segments defining a bearing having a multi-wedge bore, said surface segments being arranged in succession in a circumferential direction of the bearing shell and each, by way of an inner circumference thereof, forming a segment of a circle having a radius R, a center point of a segment of a circle of each said surface segment being shifted relative to a center point of said bearing shell by an eccentricity d;
• said bearing shell having two bearing shell halves each extending over 180° of said bearing surface and being joined at a joint in a joint plane;
• at least one said surface segment being offset relative to the center point of said bearing shell by an offset e along an offset plane, wherein said offset plane defines an angle with said joint plane in the circumferential direction of said bearing shell, the angle in the circumferential direction between said joint plane and said offset plane lying between 10° and 60°.