This book describes available tribology technologies and introdces a comprehensive overview of tribology. General, up-to-date knowledge on how tribology is approached in various related areas of research, both experimental and computational is provided.
Table of Content
Fundamentals of Engineering Surfaces.- Friction and Wear.- Contact Mechanics.- Experimental Methods in Tribology.- Interface Temperature of Sliding Surfaces.- Tribology of Metals and Alloys.- Tribology of Ceramics and Ceramic Matrix Composites.- Tribology of Metal Matrix Composites.- Coatings Tribology.- Fundamentals of Lubrication.- Self-Lubricating Behaviour of Graphite Reinforced Composites.- Particle Tribology.- Tribology of Solid Lubricants.- Tribology of Green Lubricants.- Nano Tribology.- Surface Probe Techniques.- Biotribology and Human Tribology.- Green and Biomimetic Tribology.- Fundamentals of Linking Tribology and Corrosion for Medical Applications.- Wear of Biomedical Implants.- Tribology in Metal Cutting.- Tribo-chemistry and Tribo-corrosion.- Tribology in Chemical-Mechanical Planarization.- Tribology in Metal Forming.- Tribology in Machine Components.- Macroscale Applications in Tribology.- Microscale Applications in Tribology.
About the author
Dr. Pradeep L. Menezes, Dr. Michael Nosonovsky, and Dr. Michael R. Lovell are faculty members at the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Sudeep Ingole is a faculty member at the Marine Engineering Department at Texas A&M University.
Professor Satish V. Kailas is a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Science.