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Surface phenomena in thin-film tribology
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posted on 2014-03-20, 13:01 authored by Polina Prokopovich, Homer Rahnejat, M. TeodorescuDynamics of bodies and systems or tribology of contacts are ultimately described in
terms of prevailing balance of forces. This has been the human understanding of
Nature and all the devised mechanisms and machines ever since proper description of
what is understood to constitute a force in the 17th Century by Newton (1687). The
most important force of Nature is force of gravity. Although empirical
in nature, it fitted the measured observations made previously by Kepler (1609). It is
no wonder that, apart from some exceptions the successive pioneers tried to fit similar
force laws to other interaction phenomena, such as Coulomb‟s electrostatic force
between charged particles, which follows the same inverse distance squared law as
that of universal gravitation. The elegance in the universality of gravitational constant,
however, could not be retained for constants of proportionality between the force and
distance for these other force laws...
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- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
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PROKOPOVICH, P., RAHNEJAT, H. and TEODORESCU, M., 2010. Surface phenomena in thin-film tribology. IN: Rahnejat, H. (ed). Tribology and Dynamics of Engine and Powertrain: Fundamentals, Applications and Future Trends. Woodhead Publishing Ltd, pp. 73 - 104Publisher
© Woodhead PublishingVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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9781845693619Language
- en