Engineering Tribology

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

Gwidon W. Stachowiak is an Emeritus Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, working in tribology for more than 40 years. He has taught tribology in Australia, Japan, and Switzerland. 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. He was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, and the Tribology Gold Medal.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. Andrew is the founding editor of a book series on biomaterials and has projects on the useful application of friction and wear phenomena.

1 INTRODUCTION2 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LUBRICANTS3 LUBRICANTS AND THEIR COMPOSITION4 HYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION5 COMPUTATIONAL HYDRODYNAMICS6 HYDROSTATIC LUBRICATION7 ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION8 BOUNDARY AND EXTREME PRESSURE LUBRICATION9 SOLID LUBRICATION AND SURFACE TREATMENTS10 FUNDAMENTALS OF CONTACT BETWEEN SOLIDS11 ABRASIVE, EROSIVE AND CAVITATION WEAR12 ADHESION AND ADHESIVE WEAR13 CORROSIVE AND OXIDATIVE WEAR14 FATIGUE WEAR15 FRETTING AND MINOR WEAR MECHANISMS16 WEAR OF NON-METALLIC MATERIALS17 FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN TRIBOLOGYAPPENDIXINDEX