Tribology for Engineers

Prof. (Dr.) J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, with over 35 years of experience in Mechanical, Materials, and Industrial Engineering. He holds multiple distinguished academic titles, including a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a DSc from London Metropolitan University. He has published over 300 books and 600 articles, with more than 36,500 citations. He is ranked among the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University and holds leadership positions in numerous international journals, conferences, and research projects. J. Paulo Davim received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, the M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) in 1991, the Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years) in 1986, from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra in 2005 and the D.Sc. from London Metropolitan University in 2013. He is Eur Ing by FEANI-Brussels and Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with a MBA and Specialist title in Engineering and Industrial Management. Currently, he is Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials and Mechanical Engineering with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology. He has also interest in Management & Industrial Engineering and Higher Education for Sustainability & Engineering Education. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, Ph.D. and masters students as well as coordinated & participated in several research projects. He has received several scientific awards. He has worked as evaluator of projects for international research agencies as well as examiner of Ph.D. thesis for many universities. He is the Editor in Chief of several international journals, Guest Editor of journals, books Editor, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisory for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 25 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 80 prestigious Web of Science journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 100 books and as author (and co-author) more than 10 books, 80 book chapters and 400 articles in journals and conferences (more than 200 articles in journals indexed in Web of Science core collection/h-index 45+/6000+ citations and SCOPUS/h-index 52+/8000+ citations).

"As a whole the book contains interesting, practically useful material perfectly tallied by the editor." --International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering

• PrefaceList of figuresList of tablesAbout the contributorsChapter 1: Surface topographyAbstract:1.1 Introduction1.2 Characteristics of surface layers1.3 Roughness parameters1.4 Statistical aspects1.5 Multiscale characterization of surface topography1.6 Surface roughness measurement1.7 Advanced techniques for surface topography evaluation1.8 SummaryChapter 2: Friction and wearAbstract:2.1 Friction2.2 WearChapter 3: Lubrication and roughnessAbstract:3.1 Introduction3.2 Lubricants3.3 Regimes of lubrication3.4 Reynolds’ equation3.5 Applications of hydrodynamic lubrication theory3.6 Hydrodynamic lubrication of roughened surfaces3.7 Nomenclature3.8 Subscripts3.9 AcknowledgementChapter 4: Micro/nano tribologyAbstract:4.1 Introduction4.2 Experimental investigation4.3 Theoretical investigation4.4 Summary4.5 NoteChapter 5: Tribology in manufacturingAbstract:5.1 Friction in manufacturing5.2 Lubrication to control friction in manufacturing5.3 Solid lubrication5.4 Tribology of rolling5.5 Tribology of drawing5.6 Tribology of extrusion5.7 Tribology of forging5.8 Tribology of sheet metalworking5.9 ConclusionsChapter 6: Bio and medical tribologyAbstract:6.1 Bio-tribology6.2 Basic concepts of anatomy and physiology of hip and knee joints6.3 Brief history of hip and knee prostheses6.4 Biomaterials used in hip and knee prostheses6.5 Wear of biomaterials6.6 Wear evaluation6.7 Biological effects of wear6.8 AcknowledgementsIndex