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‘Assists users, developers, researchers, and manufacturers in the design, selection, development, and application of seals and sealing systems for …

Roy Cox provides readers with a thorough presentation of the topic, beginning with the earliest work on brakes by Frood in the early 1900s and friction studies by da Vinci in the 1400s. From there, …

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