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Engineering tribology

Provides a thorough understanding of friction and wear using technologies such as lubrication and special materials. This book focuses in particular on hydrodynamic, elastohydrodynamic, and hydrostatic lubrication techniques and examines all manner of wear, including abrasive, adhesive, corrosive, a...

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Main Authors: Stachowiak, G. W. (Gwidon W.) (Author), Batchelor, A. W. (Andrew W.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Butterworth-Heinemann © 2014
Edition:Fourth edition
Subjects:
Tribology
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Physical properties of lubricants
  • 3. Lubricants and their composition
  • 4. Hydrodynamic lubrication
  • 5. Computational hydrodynamics
  • 6. Hydrostatic lubrication
  • 7. Elastohydrodynamic lubrication
  • 8. Boundary and extreme pressure lubrication
  • 9. Solid lubrication and surface treatments
  • 10. Fundamentals of contact between solids
  • 11. Abrasive, erosive and cavitation wear
  • 12. Adhesion and adhesive wear
  • 13. Corrosive and oxidative wear
  • 14. Fatigue wear
  • 15. Fretting and minor wear mechanisms
  • 16. Wear of non-metallic materials
  • 17. Future directions in tribology

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