Abstract
Tribology is the study of contacting surfaces rubbing against each other. It encompasses the topics of friction, lubrication, and wear, and historically has received the most attention from mechanical engineers. The study of tribology has generally been motivated by the need to optimize the efficiency, endurance, and precision of mechanical devices. There has been a gradually increasing appreciation that tribology presents interesting fundamental problems to materials scientists, physicists, chemists and particularly surface scientists, and that solving these fundamental problems could have striking ramifications for applied problems.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Chemistry and Physics of Solid Surfaces VIII |
| Editors | Ralf Vanselow, Russell Howe |
| Place of Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Pages | 419-445 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-642-75762-4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-642-75762-4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1990 |
Publication series
| Series | Springer series in surface sciences (SSSUR) |
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| Volume | 22 |
Funding
We are grateful to A. Homola, A. Gellman, S. Oranick, R.O. Hom, J.N: Israelachvili, U. Landmann, and CM. Mate for providing preprints of their work. Partial support of the ONR under contract NOOO14-88-C-0419 and the AFOSR under contract F49620-89-C-0068 is gratefully acknowledged. S.R.C. acknowledges the support of the Myron A. Bantrell Trust through a Chaim Weizmann postdoctoral fellowship.