Fluid Film Lubrication
Subtitle: Theory and Design
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780521619455
Subjects: Mechanical engineering; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - Mechanical; Machinery; Fluid-film bearings; Technology / Engineering / Mechanical; Technology / Machinery; Technology : Engineering - Mechanical
First sentence: The term tribology, meaning the science and technology of friction, lubrication and wear, is of recent origin (Lubrication Engineering Working Group, 1966), but its practical aspects reach back to prehistoric times.