| The Tribology Handbook follows the pattern of the original, first published over twenty years ago. It aims to provide instant access to essential information on the performance of tribological components, and is aimed particularly at designers and engineers in industry.
Tribological components are those which carry all the relative movements in machines. Their performance, therefore, makes a critical contribution to the reliability and efficiency of all machines. Also because they are the local areas of machines, where high forces and rapid movements are transmitted simultaneously, they are also the components most likely to fail, because of the concentration of energy that they carry. If anything is wrong with a machine or its method of use, these components are the mechanical fuses, which will indicate the existence of a problem.
Designers of machines should also find the contents helpful, because they provide an atlas of component performance.
"I use the Tribology Handbook as my Bible."
Dr Neil Grice
Business Services Director, University of Coventry
Subject matter covered in this
publication:
- Selection of bearings, journal and thrust.
- Plain bearing materials, dry rubbing, porous
metal, drip fed journal, high speed and rotor dynamics, crankshaft,
spherical etc.
- Rolling bearings – selection, materials
and installation.
- Special bearings.
- Rotary drives – belt, roller chain, gears,
flexible couplings, clutches and brakes.
- Linear drives – screws, cams and
followers, wheels rails and tyres, ropes, cables, piston and cylinders.
- Seals – selection sealing, oil flinger
rings, labyrinths, brush seals, lip, mechanical soft piston.
- Lubricants – selection, mineral,
synthetic, greases, solid and other liquids.
- Lubrication of components – plain, rolling
bearings, gears, chains etc.
- Failures
- Maintenance - condition monitoring,
vibration, wear debris.
- Repairs
– worn surfaces, materials.
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