Description
Book SynopsisTo this point, the field of lubrication has been conceptualized using several noncontiguous modes of operation boundary, fluid-film, and dry and solid lubrication. Engineers and analysts have long had to deal with old evidence that many tribological devices, such as flat surface and centrally pivoted sliders, can act as viable bearings contradicting basic hydrodynamic theory.
Tribology of Interface Layers introduces a new concept wherein disparate modes are shown to actually be particular phases of a tribological continuum spanning a wide array of material lubricants. The author details these phenomena and presents a novel definition of lubricants as intermediate layers.
Explores the phenomenon of continuum spectrum as applied to new powder lubrication technology
The book illustrates that contrary to previous understanding, the various lubrication modes from dry to hydrodynamic to powder lubrication al
Table of Contents
Historical Perspective. The Rheology of Interface Layers.The Phenomenology of Lubrication. Direct Contact–Hydrodynamic Continuum. Hydrodynamic–Solid Films Continuum. Experimental Performance of Powder Layers. Powder-Lubricated Devices. Theory of Powder Lubrication. Granular Films. The Tribological Continuum. Index.
