Introduction to Tribology (Tribology in Practice Series)

I needed it for a class. It is very helpful.

so far i have seen no textbook on tribology as good as this.

As an engineer in the medical device business with no background in tribology, I found this book overwhelming. The concepts of elastic and plastic contact, adhesion and deformation/plowing are useful and will guide our testing and product development. Finding those simple relations between material properties, contact pressure and contact area/friction required wading through a lot of difficult equations and graphics. Those of us who graduated as engineers and entered the empirical business world quickly forget the theoretical world of academia.If you are concerned about "rigor" and need/want to go deep theoretically, this book is probably a good one for you. If you have no tribology background but your business has developed a need to better understand it, you will find this book requires a lot of work to comprehend.