This book deals with the new and now-expanding field of friction, wear, and other surface-related mechanical phenomena for polymers. Polymers have been used in various forms such as bulk, films, and composites in applications where their friction, wear resistance, and other surface-related properties have beeneffectively utilized. There are also many examples in which polymers have performed extremely well, such as in tyres, shoes, brakes, gears, bearings, smallmoving parts in electronics and MEMS, cosmetics/hair products, and artificialhuman joints. Around the world, much research is currently being undertaken to develop new polymers, in different forms, for further enhancing tribologicalperformance and for finding novel applications. Keeping in view the importance of tribology of polymers for research and technology as well as the vast literature that is now available in research papers and review articles, this timely book brings together a wealth of research data for an understanding of thebasic principles of the subject. INDICE: Bulk Polymers: Adhesion and Friction of Polymers; Tribophysical Interpretation of Polymer Sliding Mechanisms; Scaling Effects in Tribotesting ofPolymers; Biopolymer Tribology; Reinforced Polymers: Wear of Polytetrafluoroethylene and PTFE Composites; Mechanical and Tribological Behaviour of PolymersFilled with Inorganic Particulate Fillers; The Sliding Wear of Polypropylene and Its Blends; Brake Friction Materials; Polymer Films: Mechanical Propertiesof Thin Polymer Films Within Contacts; AFM Testing of Polymeric Resist Films for Nanoimprint Lithography; and other papers.
- ISBN: 978-1-84816-202-0
- Editorial: Imperial College
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 724
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés