Tribology is an interdisciplinary science and technology that has wide-ranging relationships with many disciplines and technologies. Therefore, the building of a tribology database needs the cooperation of many groups. To assure better communication, it is very important to standardize terminology in building the tribology database. The data dictionary provides a useful tool for the standardization of terminology; it can give the terminology and data in the database three unified characteristics: name, form, and definition. All messages or metadata which relate to the system of the database should be kept in the data dictionary, and it should be possible to query all the messages in the data dictionary for addition, deletion, or modification as necessary. Any change of terms and data name etc. during the building, operation, and maintenance of the database will be reflected, transmitted, and unified in time by the data dictionary.

Twenty-seven papers from the ASTM symposium on [title] held in Cleveland, Ohio, June 1991, provide an overview of terminology work today. The volume is arranged into four major categories: issues in terminology; applying terminological principles and theories; computerization and database applicatio

Fundamental and Practical Aspects of Tribology introduces the rudiments of engineering surfaces and teaches the basic phenomena of interacting surfaces in relative motion, major modes of friction and wear, and theories of contact evolution and lubrication. Fundamental topics include friction, wear, and lubrication; surface properties and surface topography; friction of surfaces in contact; wear and surface failures; biotribology; boundary lubrication; fluid properties; hydrodynamic lubrication; bearing selection; and introductory micro‐ and nanotribology. This book also considers the relationship between nano‐ and macrotribology, rolling contacts, tribological problems in magnetic recording and electrical contacts, and monitoring and diagnosis of friction and wear. Offers a comprehensive review of the fundamentals, providing basic information for scientists and engineers just being introduced to the tribology field Teaches tribological methods of measurements and characterization Includes examples of real‐life tribological problems and case studies of engineering problems and solutions Gives an overview of current advancements in the field Features end‐of‐chapter problems and video content for reinforcement of material This textbook is written for students taking courses in tribology and lubrication, as well as surface engineering. It will also appeal to scientists and engineers who are new to tribology. The text also offers sample laboratory demonstrations available to qualifying adopting professors.

About two dozen peer-reviewed papers from a symposium in Orlando, Florida, November-December 1989, focus on the international aspect of the effort to integrate and harmonize computer databases of materials. They give much attention to standardization, guidelines for people just starting, and applica

Chapters describe friction and wear in general, emphasizing not theory, but examples of materials behavior, variables which affect transitions, and considerations in tribotesting materials. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.