This book, by Q.J. Wang and D. Zhu, provides updated information on recent research progresses in related areas, which includes new concepts, theories, methods, and results for contact and lubrication problems involving elastic or inelastic materials, homogeneous or inhomogeneous contacting bodies, and rough surfaces or textures. It deals with stochastic and deterministic models, but more focused on the latter. It also contains unified models and numerical methods for contact and mixed lubrication studies, analyses of interfacial frictional and thermal behaviors, as well as theories for the effects of multiple fields on interfacial characteristics. The book intends to reflect the recent trends of research by focusing on theories, methods, numerical simulations and problem solving techniques for practical interfaces of engineered surfaces and materials.
This book is written primarily for graduate and senior undergraduate students, engineers, and researchers in the fields of tribology, lubricant and lubrication, surface engineering, materials science and engineering, and mechanical engineering. It contains 15 chapters in 636 double-column pages.