Solid Lubrication Fundamentals and Applications description of the adhesion, friction, abrasion, and wear behavior of solid film lubricants and related tribological materials, including diamond and diamond-like solid films. The book details the properties of solid surfaces, clean surfaces, and contaminated surfaces as well as discussing the structures and mechanical properties of natural and synthetic diamonds; chemical-vapor-deposited diamond film; surface design and engineering toward wear-resistant, self-lubricating diamond films and coatings. The author provides selection and design criteria as well as applications for synthetic and natural coatings in the commercial, industrial and aerospace industries..
ISBN: | 9780824789053 |
Publication date: | 2nd October 2001 |
Author: | Kazuhisa Miyoshi |
Publisher: | CRC Press Inc an imprint of Taylor & Francis Inc |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 414 pages |
Series: | Materials Engineering |
Genres: |
Metals technology / metallurgy Materials science |