Engineering tribology

An ideal textbook for a first tribology course, this book provides an interdisciplinary understanding of the field. It includes materials constraints, real design problems and solutions (such as those for journal and rolling element bearing), cams and followers and heavily loaded gear teeth. Including physics, materials science, and surface and lubricant chemistry, the volume integrates quantitative material from a wide variety of disciplines with traditional engineering approaches. An ideal textbook for a first tribology course and a reference for designers and researchers, Engineering Tribology gives the reader interdisciplinary understanding of tribology including materials constraints. Real design problems and solutions, such as those for journal and rolling element bearings, cams and followers, and heavily loaded gear teeth, elucidate concepts and motivate understanding. The hallmark of this work is the integration of qualitative and quantitative material from a wide variety of disciplines including physics, materials science, surface and lubricant chemistry, with traditional engineering approaches. Reviewers have praised the coverage of: both elastic and plastic stresses at surfaces in contact; the mechanisms of friction, wear and surface distress, and wear; thick pressurized fluid films in both hydrostatic and hydrodynamic bearings; elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication; boundary lubrication mechanisms; dry and marginally lubricated bearing design; the design of rolling contacts and bearings "Engineering Tribology by John Williams of Cambridge University is an ideal textbook for a first tribology course and a reference of designers and researchers. Engineering Tribology gives the reader an interdisciplinary understanding of tribology including materials constraints. Real design problems and solutions, such as those for journal and rolling element bearings, cams and followers, and heavily loaded gear teeth, elucidate concepts and motivate understanding. The hallmark of this work is the integration of qualitative and quantitative material from a wade variety of disciplines including physics, materials science, and surface and lubricant chemistry, with traditional engineering approaches."--BOOK JACKET 1. Introduction 2. Engineering surfaces 3. Contact between surfaces 4. The friction of solids 5. Wear and surface damage 6. Hydrostatic bearings 7. Hydrodynamic bearings 8. Gas bearings, non-Newtonian lubricants and elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication 9. Boundary lubrication and friction 10. Dry and marginally lubricated contacts 11. Rolling contacts and rolling element bearings. Engineering Tribology is ideal for a first tribology course and as a reference for designers and researchers. Real design problems and solutions, such as those for journal and rolling element bearings, cams and followers, and heavily loaded gear teeth, elucidate concepts and motivate understanding. 'Engineering Tribology' by John Williams is suitable for a first course and as a reference