Best Book on Tribology?

[edrush]

Looking for a good book on Tribology. Many advances are being made, so I want something published within the last couple of years. I am interested in sliding performance, not rolling performance, and lubrication. Looking for both theory and practical information. Any recomendations?

How about a broader question: What are the best sources of information on tribology? Which journals have you found to be the most informative? Any other sources?

It appears Eng-Tips is not thriving. And least this thread isn't. This is unfortunate.

Thanks,

Ed

 

[romke]

tribology is rather a large field of interest, where engineering surfaces and their behaviour is the main topic and lubrication is a way to acquire the wanted product life if the choice of material and surface treatment alone cannot achieve the required result.

two interesting books are:

Engineering Tribology (Stachowiak/Batchelor)
Advanced engineering design (Van Beek)

Both books cover both the engineering and lubrication aspects in a practical way - with ofcourse the unavoidable math. Even without the math both books are quite interesting, the second one is cheaper and also links various phenomena to reliability, whereas the irst one supplies more in depth coverage of mathemathical aspects.

Both are in fact college texts put together in a book with added pictures and drawing material to explain various concepts and thereore a good start.

If I had to choose only ine booe i would go for the more elaborate one.

There are various tribological resources on the web - a search reveals quite a lot of universities where information can be ound - of varying quality.

Tribology and lubrication, although interlinked, are usually treated separately - in practice they rely heavily upon each other. But people tend to be either a tribologist (with a lot of knowledge about surfaces and friction and wear phenomena) or a lubrication specialist (knowing a lot about lubricant composition and behaviour). The subjects is too large to be a specialist on both.

 

[OptiEng]

Hello Ed, are you still interested in Tribology? Have you done any experimental work? I posted on here a few days ago, but your right about this forum, it seems to be inactive.