2nd Edition

Mechanical Wear Fundamentals and Testing, Revised and Expanded

By Raymond G. Bayer Copyright 2004
    416 Pages
    by CRC Press

    416 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Written by a tribological expert with more than thirty years of experience in the field, Mechanical Wear Fundamentals and Testing, Second Edition compiles an extensive range of graphs, tables, micrographs, and drawings to illustrate wear, friction, and lubrication behavior in modern engineering applications. The author promotes a clear understanding of wear testing methodologies for avoidance and resolution of deterioration and weakening in specific engineering designs.

    Comprehensively describes more than 20 different phenomenological wear tests and over 10 operational wear tests

    Fundamentals. Terminology and Classifications. Wear Measures. Wear Mechanisms. Wear Behavior and Phenomena. Friction. Lubrication. Testing. Selection and Use of Wear Tests. Testing Methodology. Wear Tests. Friction Tests. Glossary of Wear Mechanisms, Related Terms, and Phenomena. Appendix: Galling Threshold Stress. Index.

    Biography

    Bayer, Raymond G.