1st Edition

Friction, Wear, and Erosion Atlas

By Kenneth G. Budinski Copyright 2014
    310 Pages 32 Color & 349 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    310 Pages 32 Color & 349 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Friction, wear, and erosion are major issues in mechanical engineering and materials science, resulting in major costs to businesses operating in the automotive, biomedical, petroleum/oil/gas, and structural engineering industries. The good news is, by understanding what friction, wear, or erosion mode predominates in a mechanism or device, you can take action to prevent its costly failure.

    Seeing Is Believing

    Containing nearly 300 photos of component failures, macro- and micrographs of surface damage, and schematics on material removal mechanisms collected over 50 years of tribology consulting and research, Friction, Wear, and Erosion Atlas is a must-have quick reference for tribology professionals and laymen alike. Complete with detailed explanations of every friction, wear, and erosion process, the atlas’ catalog of images is supported by a wealth of practical guidance on:

    • Diagnosing the specific causes of part failure
    • Identifying popular modes of wear, including rolling and impact, with a special emphasis on adhesion and abrasion
    • Understanding manifestations of friction, such as force traces from a laboratory test rig for a variety of test couples
    • Recognizing liquid droplet, solid particle, slurry, equal impingement, and cavitation modes of erosion
    • Developing solutions to process-limiting problems

    Featuring a glossary of tribology terms and definitions, as well as hundreds of visual representations, Friction, Wear, and Erosion Atlas is both user friendly and useful. It not only raises awareness of the importance of tribology, but provides guidance for how designers can proactively mitigate tribology concerns.

    Introduction
    Glossary of Tribology Terms
    Abrasive wear terms
    Non-abrasive wear terms
    Erosion terms
    Adhesive Wear
    The mechanism of Adhesion
    The role of speed, load, distance etc.
    Appearance of adhesive wear
    Abrasion
    Mechanisms
    Manifestations
    Abradants
    Abrasivity
    Measuring abrasion resistance
    Differentiating abrasion from other wear modes
    Rolling Contact Fatigue
    Mechanism
    Micropitting
    Pitting
    Spalling
    Slip in rolling tribosystems
    Testing materials for RCF
    Impact Wear
    Mechanism
    Impact wear of plastics/elastomers
    Impact wear in metalworking
    Impact wear in mineral beneficiation
    Lubricated Wear
    Reciprocating systems
    Plain bearings
    Rolling element bearings
    Metal forming
    Machining
    Tribocorrosion
    Use of potentiostats to study tribocorrosion
    Slurry erosion
    Mechanism
    Slurry abrasivity
    Liquid impingement erosion
    Cavitation erosion
    Solid Particle Erosion
    Mechanism
    Particle velocity
    Manifestations
    Liquid Droplet Erosion
    Droplet damage to solids
    LDE testing
    Sliding Friction
    Types of friction
    Early studies of friction
    Fundamentals of sliding friction
    Measuring friction force
    Factors that affect sliding friction
    Sliding friction manifestations
    Rolling Friction
    Fundamentals of rolling friction
    Testing for rolling friction characteristics
    Dealing with rolling friction
    Friction rules-of-thumb
    Materials for Wear and Erosion
    Ferrous metal alloys
    Non-ferrous metal alloys
    Ceramics/cermets
    Plastics
    Composites
    Surface Engineering for Wear and Erosion
    Heat treating processes
    Plating processes
    Thin-film coatings
    Special surfacing processes
    Laboratory testing
    Solving Tribology Problems
    Building a solutions matrix
    Material considerations
    Surface engineering considerations
    Laboratory testing
    Appendices
    Hardfacing processes
    Hardfacing fusion consumables and design aides
    Thermal spray processes and consumables
    Diffusion treatments
    Selective hardening
    Thin coatings and treatments
    Platings and conversion coatings
    Selected properties of engineering materials

    Biography

    Ken Budinski holds a BS in mechanical engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in Flint, Michigan and an MS in metallurgical engineering from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA. He is a fellow in ASTM International, ASM International, and the Rochester Engineering Society, chair of the ASTM G02.5 Subcommittee on Friction, and a decorated technical contributor who has published over 50 journal papers and five other technical books. Formerly senior technical associate specializing in tribology at Eastman Kodak’s Materials Engineering Laboratory in Rochester, New York, he is now technical director for Bud Labs in Rochester.

    “Fundamental aspects of concepts are explained clearly and simply…[and] are supported by illustrations and images of worn surfaces. In addition the book contains a number of appendices, which provide useful engineering information related to tribology.”
    —Raymond G. Bayer, Tribology Consultant, USA