Wear Control. Principles and Practice
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Publisher: Myles Publications
ISBN: 0958394725
Format: hardback
223pp
Price: £42.00
Review Date: 24 October 2000
Review: This book, published in South Africa, aims to provide a basic reference and introduction to wear control. Information on topics is provides by companies involved in the relevant fields. There are chapters on: the principles and definitions of wear; wear-resistant materials and systems (steels, rubber, plastics, ceramics, UHMWPE); wear-resistant components and products (steel castings, linings, gears, belt drives, mills, crushers, valves etc.); bearings; wear control in particular industries (bulk conveying, centrifugal slurry pumps, steel piping in slurry service, machine tools, brakes, abrasion-resistant materials); lubrication; and surface engineering and reclamation.