Fundamentals of Tribology - Hardcover

Gohar Ramsey & H Rahnejat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848161840 ISBN 13: 9781848161849

Publisher: Imperial College Press, 2008

Synopsis

There are many occasions when quick solutions to problems in tribology are needed. For example, an understanding of the lubrication mechanism in a racing car engine has led to an improvement in performance. Why does a woman's face cream make her look younger for a time? Tribologists are frequently summoned in legal cases as expert witnesses after people have slipped in public places. Improvements to the human artificial hip joint are also partly a result of extensive tribology research. In order to solve such problems, tribology should be regarded as an important undergraduate course.This book covers tribology in such a way as to provide simple approximate solutions to frequent practical problems. Unlike previous books, which catered for earlier generations of undergraduates, today's students generally have sophisticated computer systems available in their colleges. Therefore, many of the worked and set examples in the book are made easier by using readily available software such as Math CAD. Readers will thus gain practice in using it, and will benefit in general by understanding the mathematical principles involved in the solutions. This book is particularly useful to engineering undergraduates and practicing engineers needing a quick solution to tribological problems.

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Review:

Questions and answers at the end of the book make it an appropriate text for an undergraduate course in materials science or mechanical engineering ... this textbook does provide the reader with a solid background in the theory of tribology. --IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine

This new book is very comprehensive and the authors emphasize that the book includes the latest contributions from outstanding researchers ... the readers can find a good overview of some fundamental problems of tribology in this book. --Professor Huiling Duan , Beijing University

This textbook, including numerous examples and questions for self-verification, which are accompanied by the corresponding solutions, may be very useful to students studying the problems of tribology and related sciences, and also for development of the corresponding educational courses. --Zentralblatt MATH

About this edition

• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1848161840
• ISBN 13: 9781848161849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 450