Engineering Tribology, Fifth Edition takes an interdisciplinary approach to key concepts and engineering implications of tribology, bringing together the relevant knowledge needed from different fields to achieve effective analysis and control of friction and wear. This edition has been updated to include new content on the computational evaluation of cavitation effects in hydrodynamic bearings, the electrical properties of lubricants, coverage of gas and foil bearings, local directional, fractal signature methods, tribochemistry and mechanical activation, removal of oxide films, models of mechanical activation, advancing tribology with artificial intelligence, modeling, and simulation, and much more.
Suitable as an introductory text, this book is also relevant for those working in applied chemistry and bioengineering.
Suitable as an introductory text, this book is also relevant for those working in applied chemistry and bioengineering.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Engineering Tribology2. 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
18. Appendix
