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Ian Sherrington and W. B. Rowe are the authors of Total Tribology: Towards an Integrated Approach, published by Wiley.
Series Editors' Foreword | p. xvii |
Preface | p. xix |
Principles, Concepts, and Trends | |
Total Tribology--the Practice of Considering Tribology at all Stages of the Life Cycle of Interface Components | p. 1 |
Introduction--historical perspective | p. 1 |
Pollution and global warming | p. 2 |
Promoting good practice in tribology | p. 3 |
Total tribology--the practice of considering tribology at all stages of the life cycle of interface components | p. 4 |
Conclusion--now and the future | p. 6 |
The Possible Impact of Tribology on Future Machine Design | p. 9 |
The basic elements of machine design | p. 9 |
Design improvements | p. 10 |
New design opportunities | p. 16 |
Conclusions | p. 18 |
Foresight--the Experience of the Materials Panel and the Potential for Total Tribology | |
The history of Foresight in the UK | p. 20 |
Engaging the community | p. 21 |
Lessons from the first round | p. 22 |
The second round of Foresight 1999-2004 | p. 23 |
Where does total tribology fit in with the Foresight process? | p. 25 |
Conclusions | p. 26 |
Acknowledgements | p. 26 |
References | p. 26 |
Materials in Tribology--Opportunities and Challenges | p. 27 |
Introduction | p. 27 |
Material properties and wear resistance | p. 30 |
Developments in bulk materials and surface coatings | p. 31 |
Tribological materials and design | p. 35 |
Conclusions | p. 36 |
References | p. 37 |
Hard Tribological Coatings: Developments and Applications | p. 39 |
Introduction | p. 39 |
The requirements of tribological contacts | p. 40 |
Coating developments | p. 44 |
Applications | p. 53 |
Conclusions | p. 58 |
Acknowledgements | p. 59 |
References | p. 59 |
Trends in Lubrication | p. 65 |
The lubricants industry | p. 65 |
Automotive | p. 66 |
Industrial | p. 78 |
Summary | p. 80 |
References | p. 81 |
Trends in Fluid Lubrication | p. 83 |
Introduction | p. 83 |
Trends in automotive fluid lubrication | p. 84 |
Trends in industrial fluid lubrication | p. 95 |
Relation to total tribology | p. 96 |
Conclusions | p. 97 |
Acknowledgements | p. 97 |
References | p. 98 |
Use of Solid Lubricants | p. 99 |
Introduction | p. 99 |
Overview | p. 99 |
Bonded coatings | p. 100 |
Self-lubricating compounds | p. 102 |
Summary | p. 107 |
Bibliography | p. 107 |
Tribology--A Key Element in Condition Monitoring | p. 109 |
Introduction | p. 109 |
Condition monitoring | p. 110 |
Performance monitoring | p. 111 |
Vibration monitoring | p. 111 |
Lubricant and wear debris analysis | p. 112 |
Examples where lubricant and wear debris analysis identified a problem | p. 114 |
Conclusion | p. 118 |
References | p. 118 |
Practice | |
Manufacturing | |
The Role of Tribology in Manufacturing Processes | p. 119 |
Introduction | p. 119 |
Inverse methods | p. 121 |
Microscopic models of asperity contact | p. 123 |
Conclusions | p. 127 |
References | p. 127 |
Product Design for Process Capability | p. 129 |
Introduction | p. 129 |
Process capability indices | p. 132 |
A methodology for capable design | p. 134 |
Capable design in surface engineering | p. 139 |
Concluding remarks | p. 143 |
Acknowledgements | p. 143 |
References | p. 144 |
Porous Ceramic Water Hydrostatic Bearings | p. 147 |
Introduction | p. 147 |
Bearing design and optimization | p. 149 |
Bearing manufacture and characterization | p. 152 |
Conclusions | p. 159 |
Acknowledgement | p. 160 |
References | p. 160 |
Design of Abrasive Machining Processes | p. 163 |
Introduction | p. 164 |
Abrasive machining processes | p. 165 |
Abrasives | p. 167 |
Tribological principles | p. 168 |
Systematic analysis | p. 172 |
Energy analysis | p. 174 |
Temperature case studies for grinding processes | p. 180 |
Conclusions | p. 182 |
References | p. 182 |
The circular contact heat source equation | p. 183 |
Metal-working Fluids and Some of Their Environmental Impacts | p. 185 |
Metal-working fluid classifications | p. 185 |
Metal-working fluid raw materials | p. 187 |
Metal-working fluid life cycle | p. 188 |
Conclusion | p. 194 |
References | p. 195 |
Ecological and Cost-efficient Solutions for Metal Cutting Fluids and Machine Tool Lubrication | p. 197 |
Coolant costs | p. 197 |
New fluid families--oil instead of emulsion | p. 203 |
Unifluid | p. 212 |
Minimum quantity lubrication--dry cutting | p. 213 |
Summary | p. 218 |
References | p. 218 |
Transport Powerplant | |
On the Lubrication of Power Plants | p. 221 |
'The art is in the assemblage' | p. 221 |
Lubricant additive solutions to common problems | p. 222 |
Lubrication of small two-stroke engines | p. 228 |
Four-stroke motorcycle engine lubrication | p. 229 |
Marine diesel engine lubrication | p. 229 |
Passenger car spark and compression ignition engines | p. 230 |
The impact of engine design changes | p. 231 |
Consequences of engine design changes for the lubricant | p. 231 |
Conclusions | p. 234 |
References | p. 234 |
Tribology in Aerospace | p. 235 |
Importance of tribology in aerospace | p. 235 |
Key areas for wear control in gas turbine engines | p. 237 |
Existing engine surface treatments and coatings technology | p. 239 |
How surface engineering can be used to improve engine efficiency | p. 243 |
Conclusion | p. 246 |
A Tribological Tour of the Internal Combustion Engine | p. 249 |
Introduction | p. 249 |
Lubrication | p. 250 |
Tribology of the IC engine | p. 251 |
Conclusions | p. 262 |
References | p. 262 |
Friction Prediction and Cold Starting of Diesel Engines | p. 265 |
Introduction | p. 265 |
Main modules of EnFAS | p. 266 |
Friction, prediction, and comparison with measurement | p. 267 |
Prediction of cold starting capability of diesel engines | p. 271 |
Tribology in automotive industry | p. 273 |
Conclusions | p. 274 |
Acknowledgements | p. 275 |
References | p. 275 |
Index | p. 277 |
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