Series Editors' Foreword.

Preface.

1. The Challenge of Wear (I. Hutchings).

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Definitions and Development of Wear Studies.

1.3 Scope and Challenges.

1.4 Conclusions.

2. Classification of Wear Mechanisms/Models (K. Kato).

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Classification of Wear Mechanisms and Wear Modes.

2.3 General Discussion of Wear Mechanisms and Their Models.

2.4 Conclusion.

3. Wear of metals: a Materials Response (S.K. Biswas).

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 Mild Wear and Transition to Severe Wear.

3.3 Strain Rate Estimates and Bulk Surface Temperature.

3.4 Summary.

4. Boundary Lubricated Wear (S. Hsu, R. Munro, M.C. Shen and R. S. Gates).

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 Lubricated Wear Classification.

4.3 Lubricated Wear Versus “Dry” Wear.

4.4 Wear Measurement in Well-Lubricated Systems.

4.5 Measurement Procedures.

4.6 Wear Mechanisms Under Lubricated Conditions.

4.7 Modeling of Lubricated Wear.

4.8 Summary.

5. Wear and Chemistry of Lubricants (A. Neville).

5.1 Encountering Wear in Tribological Contacts.

5.2 Lubricant Formulations – Drivers for Change.

5.3 Tribochemistry and Wear.

5.4 Antiwear Additive Technologies.

5.5 Extreme Pressure Additives.

5.6 Lubricating Non-Fe Materials.

6. Surface Chemistry in Tribology (A.J. Gelman and N. D. Spencer).

6.1 Introduction.

6.2 Boundary Lubrication and Oiliness Additives.

6.3 Zinc Dialkyldithiophosphate.

6.4 Hard Disk Lubrication.

6.5 Vapor-Phase Lubrication.

6.6 Tribology of Quasicrystals.

6.7 Conclusions.

7. Tribology of Engineered Surfaces (K. Holmberg & A. Matthews).

7.1 Introduction.

7.2 Definition of an Engineered Surface.

7.3 Tribomechanisms of Coated Surfaces.

7.4 Contact Types.

7.5 Advanced Coating Types.

7.6 Applications.

7.7 Conclusions.

8. Wear of Ceramics: Transitions and Tribochemical Reactions in Ceramics (S. Jahanmir).

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 Structure and Properties of Ceramics.

8.3 Wear Transitions.

8.4 Damage Formation in Hertzian Contacts.

8.5 Transition Loads in Sliding Contacts.

8.6 Ceramics in Tribological Applications.

9. Tribology of Diamond and Diamond-Like Carbon Films: An Overview  (A. Erdemir).

9.1 General Overview.

9.2 Diamond Films.

9.3 Diamond-like Carbon Films.

9.4 Summary and Future Direction.

10. Tribology of Polymeric Solids and Their Composites (B. Briscoe and S.K. Sinha).

10.1 Introduction.

10.2 The Mechanisms of Polymer Friction.

10.3 Wear.

10.4 Tribology of Polymer Composites.

10.5 Environmental and Lubrication Effects.

10.6 A Case Study: Polymers in Hip and Knee Prosthetic Applications – Ultrahigh-Molecular-Weight Poly(ethylene) (UHMWPE).

10.7 Concluding Remarks.

11. Wear of polymer composites (K. Friedrich, Z. Zhang and P. Klein).

11.1 Introduction.

11.2 Sliding Wear of Filler Reinforced Polymer Composites.

11.3 Artificial Neural Networks Approach for Wear Prediction.

11.4 Fibre Orientation, Wear Mechanisms and Stress Conditions in Continuous Fibre  Reinforced Composites.

11.5 Conclusions.

12. Third Body Reality - Consequences and Use of the Third Body Concept to Solve a Friction and Wear Problems (Y. Berthier).

12.1 Introduction.

12.2 Relationship Between the Third Body and Friction.

12.3 Relationship Between the Third Body and Wear.

12.4 What Methods Exist for Studying Friction and Wear?

12.5 The Third-Body Concept.

12.6 Functions and Behaviour of the Third Body.

12.7 Roles of the Materials in a Tribological Contact.

12.8 Taking into Account the Effects of the Mechanism.

12.9 Taking into Account the Effect of the First Bodies. 

12.10 “Solid” Natural Third-Body Modelling.

12.11 Correspondence of the Strategy Proposed to Reality.

12.12 Control of Input Conditions.

12.13 Performing Experiments.

12.14 Conclusions.

13. Basic Principles of Fretting (P. Kapsa, S. Fouvry  and L. Vincent).

13.1 Introduction.

13.2 Wear.

13.3 Industrial Needs.

13.4 Fretting in Assemblies.

13.5 Fretting Processes.

13.6 Fretting Parameters.

13.7 Conclusions.

14. Characterization and classification of abrasive particles and surfaces (G.W. Stachowiak, G.B. Stachowiak, D.V. de Pellegrin and P. Podsiadlo).

14.1 Introduction.

14.2 General Descriptors of Particle Shape.

14.3 Particle Angularity Parameters.

14.4 Particle Size Effect in Abrasive Wear.

14.5 Sharpness of Surfaces.

14.6 Classification of Abrasive Surfaces.

14.7 Summary.

15. Wear Mapping of materials (S. Hsu and M.C. Shen).

15.1 Introduction.

15.2 Basic Definition of Wear.

15.3 Wear as a System Function.

15.4 Wear Maps as a Classification Tool to Define the System.

15.5 Wear as an “Intrinsic” Material Property as Defined by Wear Maps.

15.6 Different Kinds of Wear Maps.

15.7 Application of Wear Maps.

15.8 Construction Techniques of Wear Maps.

15.9 Application Map Concept and Examples.

15.10 Future Wear Map Research.

16. Machine Failure and Its Avoidance – Tribology’s Contribution to Effective Maintenance of Critical Machinery (B. Roylance).

16.1 Introduction.

16.2 Maintenance Practice and Tribological Principles.

16.3 Failure Diagnoses.

16.4 Condition-Based Maintenance.

16.5 Wear and Wear Debris Analysis.

16.6 Predicting the Remaining Useful Life and Evaluating the Cost Benefits.

16.7 Closure.

Index.