Applied Tribology: Bearing Design and Lubrication 2nd Edition
Applied Tribology: Bearing Design and Lubrication,2nd Edition continues to maintain a balance between the theory and application of the technology, giving particular emphasis to tribology in aerospace equipment, steam and gas turbines, motors and generators, transportation and marine equipment, and appliances. Since publication of the first edition, the authors have published 14 journal articles on new research into the field, and this has provided the basis for a thorough update of all material as well as 2 entirely new chapters on seals and bearing failure modes.
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Applied Tribology: Bearing Design and Lubrication 2nd Edition Content:
- Tribology – Friction, Wear, and Lubrication
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- Lubricants and Lubrication
- Surface Texture and Interactions
- Bearing Materials
- Fundamentals of Viscous Flow
- Reynolds Equation and Applications
- Thrust Bearings
- Journal Bearings
- Squeeze?Film Bearings
- Hydrostatic Bearings
- Gas Bearings
- Dry and Starved Bearings
- Selecting Bearing Type and Size
- Principles and Operating Limits
- Friction, Wear and Lubrication
- Seal Fundamentals
- Condition Monitoring and Failure Analysis
The book has quickly become a highly successful and popular text amongst the students, academics as well as amongst the practicing engineers. The readers valued this book as a good teaching material and a useful reference. It is thus of no surprise that it enjoys a five star ranking on the Amazon book list. The second edition is an extended and updated version of the original.
In this second edition of Applied Tribology all the chapters were updated to reflect recent developments in the field. In addition, this edition contains two new chapters: one on the fundamentals of seals and the other on monitoring machine behavior and lubricants, as well as bearing failure analysis. These topics are of considerable interest to the industry practitioners as well as students and should satisfy the needs of the tribology community at large.
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