This reference/text compiles detailed studies on various residual stresses, reaction processes and mechanisms, heat treatment methods, plasma-based techniques, and modeling, simulation, and design strategies, thus providing a solid understanding of the surface structural changes that occur during various engineering procedures. It presents simulation methodologies to model interfacial friction on solid surfaces; studies detailing the effect of surface modification technologies and related mechanisms on wear; sections on laser impingement and nanometer scale surface modification; an extensive discussion of the impact of electrochemical mechanisms on wear processes; and more.

From the Preface: “There are many texts and handbooks available describing tribological processes, effects of additives on lubrication, tribochemistry, surface engineering, and heat treating methodologies involved in surface modification. However, few of these texts provide a thorough integration of surface modification reactions and processes to achieve a tribological result and none provides a physical tribochemical (mechanistic) understanding of surface structural changes that occur under various circumstances. This book was written to address these deficiencies...”

Target Audience: Mechanical, industrial, chemical, design, lubrication, and process engineers; materials scientists; tribologists; metallurgists; and upper-level students in these disciplines.

Table of Contents:

Residual Stresses:

Temperature and Stress Fields Due to Contact with Friction, Surface Heat Treatment, Welding, and Cutting

Stresses in Thin Films

Reaction Processes and Mechanisms:

Metallic Tribo-Oxides: Formation and Wear Behavior

Review on Lubricious Oxides and their Practical Importance

Plastics

Tribochemistry

Tribopolymerization as a Mechanism of Boundary Lubrication

Hydrolysis

Oil Surface: Additive Reaction Mechanisms

Surface Chemistry of Extreme-Pressure Lubricant Additives

Tribochemistry of Boundary Lubrication Processes

Electrochemistry, Corrosion, and Corrosion-Wear

Corrosion and Its Impact on Wear Processes

Surface Modification by Heat Treatment and Plasma-Based Methods:

Heat Treatment: Tribological Applications

Plasma-Based Surface Modification

Surface Engineering with Lasers

Nanometer-Scale Surface Modification Using Scanning Force Microscopy in Chemically Active Environments

Modeling, Simulation, and Design:

Designing for Wear Life and Frictional Performance

Simulation Methods for Interfacial Friction in Solids

Index