Engineering Tribology

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As with the previous edition, the third edition of Engineering Tribology provides a thorough understanding of friction and wear using technologies such as lubrication and special materials. Tribology is a complex topic with its own terminology and specialized concepts, yet is vitally important throughout all engineering disciplines, including mechanical design, aerodynamics, fluid dynamics and biomedical engineering. This edition includes updated material on the hydrodynamic aspects of tribology as well as new advances in the field of biotribology, with a focus throughout on the engineering applications of tribology.This book offers an extensive range if illustrations which communicate the basic concepts of tribology in engineering better than text alone. All chapters include an extensive list of references and citations to facilitate further in-depth research and thorough navigation through particular subjects covered in each chapter.
  • Includes newly devised end-of-chapter problems
  • Provides a comprehensive overview of the mechanisms of wear, lubrication and friction in an accessible manner designed to aid non-specialists
  • Gives a reader-friendly approach to the subject using a graphic illustrative method to break down the typically complex problems associated with tribology
 

Contents

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1
CHAPTER 2 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LUBRICANTS
11
CHAPTER 3 LUBRICANTS AND THEIR COMPOSITION
51
CHAPTER 4 HYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION
103
CHAPTER 5 COMPUTATIONAL HYDRODYNAMICS
205
CHAPTER 6 HYDROSTATIC LUBRICATION
261
CHAPTER 7 ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION
287
CHAPTER 8 BOUNDARY AND EXTREME PRESSURE LUBRICATION
363
CHAPTER 11 ABRASIVE EROSIVE AND CAVITATION WEAR
501
CHAPTER 12 ADHESION AND ADHESIVE WEAR
553
CHAPTER 13 CORROSIVE AND OXIDATIVE WEAR
573
CHAPTER 14 FATIGUE WEAR
595
CHAPTER 15 FRETTING AND MINOR WEAR MECHANISMS
621
CHAPTER 16 WEAR OF NONMETALLIC MATERIALS
651
CHAPTER 17 FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN TRIBOLOGY
705
APPENDIX
719

CHAPTER 9 SOLID LUBRICATION AND SURFACE TREATMENTS
419
CHAPTER 10 FUNDAMENTALS OF CONTACT BETWEEN SOLIDS
461

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About the author (2011)

Gwidon Stachowiak is a Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, specializing in tribology. His research interests include the development of methods for description of multiscale 3D surface topographies, tribocorrosion, and optimization of 3D surface textures for hydrodynamic contacts.

Andrew W. Batchelor has been involved in tribology for 30 years and has taught tribology at universities in Australia, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and India. He has written books on topics relating to materials degradation, biomaterials and bioengineering.

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