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Introduction To Tribology

Tribology is the study of friction, lubrication, and wear between surfaces in contact. It was coined in 1964 by a British government committee seeking to reduce friction's negative effects on industry. Tribology encompasses three disciplines: friction, lubrication, and wear. Lubrication is essential for minimizing friction in machines and allowing movement in biological systems like joints. Stribeck devised a curve relating surface roughness, lubricant film thickness, and friction coefficient to define lubrication regimes from boundary to hydrodynamic.

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Introduction To Tribology

Tribology is the study of friction, lubrication, and wear between surfaces in contact. It was coined in 1964 by a British government committee seeking to reduce friction's negative effects on industry. Tribology encompasses three disciplines: friction, lubrication, and wear. Lubrication is essential for minimizing friction in machines and allowing movement in biological systems like joints. Stribeck devised a curve relating surface roughness, lubricant film thickness, and friction coefficient to define lubrication regimes from boundary to hydrodynamic.

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Introduction to Tribology

1.1 . Introduction
The grneric word Tribology is derived from ancient
Greek. Its root is found in a verb of that period trivein
which itself was based on the word pedo,meaning (the
character formation of privileged children by their home
tutors) .
More recently ,1964 Government appointed committee
was set up to find ways of reducing the untoward
effects of friction on the British industrial economy. The
committee invented the word Tribology to emphasize
the scientific nature of studying the interactions of solid
contacting surfaces in relative motion these being
covered by the three disciplines of FRICTION,
LUBRICATION and WEAR.
For example, friction gives us the ability to walk and to
grasp objects , whilst lubrication is essrntial for the
proper functioning of the joints in our skeletons .
By means of effective lubrication , mechanical design
seeks to minimize friction in devices such as engines,
skis and computer hard disc drives. On the other hand
,high friction is essential for the traction and braking of
rubber car tyres against the road surface.
An example of a device using rolling friction , was
conceived by Leonardo Da Vinci around 1495. His
ingenious design was of a low friction thrust ball bearing
using bobbin type separators .
Throughout the history of tribology , the approach for
finding ways of reducing friction has mainly been by trial
and error or by experiments .
1.2. Regimes of Lubrication
As lubrication is an important component of Tribology ,
here is a convenient point to introduce the reader to its
structure in a very simple and approximate way .we will
assume that two rubbing (or rolling) solid surfaces are
like steel on steel, they are also rough because a
perfectly smooth surface cannot exist.
Stribeck originally devised a convenient way of relating
roughness and film thickness by a parameter
The STRIBECK CURVE show below where the coefficient
of friction ( ) is plotted against
The frictional contact of clean surfaces is represented by
point A at the beginning of the BOUNDARY
LUBRICATION regime.
At point B where the surface roughness equals the film
thickness we enter the mixed or partial lubrication
regime BC.
The progressive reduction in the value of carries
further into the regime CD where a coherent
ELSTOHYDRODYNAMIC (EHL) lubricant film is produced.
The next regime beyond D covers the HYDRODYNAMIC
and EXTERNALLY PRESSURIZED type of bearing.

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