TRIBOLOGY AND SURFACEENGINEERING -- TRIBOLOGY AND SURFACE ENGINEERING -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- HYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATIONOF ROUGHENED SURFACESWITH DIFFERENT ASPERITYHEIGHTS AND WAVE NUMBERS -- ABSTRACT -- NOMENCLATURE -- INTRODUCTION -- MATHEMATICAL MODEL -- SOLUTION FOR UNEQUAL WAVENUMBER AND UNEQUAL ASPERITY HEIGHT -- RESULTS OF PARAMETRIC STUDY AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- PREDICTIONS OF PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICSIN A LARGE TILTING PAD THRUST BEARING -- ABSTRACT -- NOMENCLATURE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. GOVERNING EQUATIONS -- 2.1. Oil Film Shape -- 2.2. Reynold's Equation -- 3. COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURE -- 4. DYNAMIC COEFFFICIENTS -- 5. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FINITE ELEMENT BASED ELASTIC-PLASTICCONTACT OF FRACTAL SURFACESCONSIDERING STRAIN HARDENING -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FRACTAL SURFACE GENERATION -- 3. FINITE ELEMENT MODELING -- 4. COMPARISON WITH THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS -- 5. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SCALE EFFECTS IN ELASTIC-PLASTICADHESIVE CONTACT OF ROUGH SURFACES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. LOADING ANALYSIS -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ADHESIVE FRICTION FOR ELASTIC-PLASTICCONTACTING ROUGH SURFACESBASED ON PLASTIC ASPERITY CONCEPT -- ABSTRACT -- NOMENCLATURE -- Superscript -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PLASTIC ASPERITY CONCEPT -- 3. LOADDING ANALLYSIS -- 4. SCALE DEPENDENT FRICTION ANALYSIS -- 5. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CORROSION BEHAVIOR OF NITRIDED AUSTENITICSTAINLESS STEELS IN A CORROSIVEAQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS -- 3.1. Surface Characterization -- 3.1.1. Identification of Phases in the Nitrided Layer -- 3.1.2. Microhardness.

3.1.3. Microstructure -- 3.2. Corrosion Behaviour -- 3.2.1. Potentiodynamic Anodic Polarisation Tests -- 3.2.2. Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) Test -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ON THE DEFORMATION OF A HARD COATING/SOFTSUBSTRATE SYSTEM UNDER SPHERICALNANOINDENTATION:A BOUNDARY ELEMENT NUMERICAL ANALYSIS -- ABSTRACT -- LIST OF NOTATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. METHOD OF SOLUTION -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 3.1. Indentation of a Homogeneous Elastic-Plastic Specimen -- 3.2. Indentation of a Hard Coating/Softer Substrate System -- 3.2.1. Load / Unload Resulting Surface Characteristics and Topography -- 3.2.2. Stress Fields -- a) Stress Fields in Substrate at Maximum Load -- b) Stress Fields during Unloading -- c) Residual Axial Stress Perpendicular to the Loaded Surface -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- KINETIC MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONFOR THE GROWTH OF CU FILMS ONDIFFERENT INITIAL ACTIVE SUBSTRATES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SIMULATION MODEL AND CALCULATION -- 2.1. Model -- 2.2. Calculation Procedures -- 2.2.1. Deposition -- 2.2.2. Diffusion -- 2.2.3. Evaporation -- 2.2.4. Probabilities of Diffusion and Evaporation Events -- 2.2.5. Some Other Definitions -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 3.1. Morphology of Film Growth -- 3.2. Deposition Rate of Incident Particles -- 3.3. RMS Surface Roughness -- 3.4. Relative Density of Thin Film -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION EVALUATIONAGAINST SURFACE ROUGHNESS PARAMETER RA OF25CR SUPER DUPLEX STAINLESS STEEL SURFACES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 2.1. Samples Preparation -- 2.2. Electrochemical Evaluation -- 3. RESULTS -- 3.1. Critical Pitting Temperature (CPT) Results -- 3.2. Potentiodynamic Results -- 3.3. Pitting CCorrosion MMorphology -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

EFFECT OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON CORROSIONOF MILD STEEL AND 316L AUSTENITIC STAINLESSSTEEL IN SODIUM CHLORIDE SALINE SOLUTIONS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERMENTAL METHOD -- 2.1. Sample Preparation -- 2.2. Electrochemical Measurements -- 3. RESULTS -- 3.1. Electrochemical Data Analysis -- 3.1.1. Mild Steel - potentiodynamic Results -- 3.1.2. Stainless Steel (316L) - Potentiodynamic Results -- 3.2. Morphology Results -- 4. DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- APPLICATION OF SOME BASIC CORROSIONEQUATIONS FOR COPPER-NICKEL ALLOYIN INHIBITED ACID MEDIA -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL WORK -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- EFFECT OF MORPHOLOGY OF DIAMOND FILMSON FRICTION RESPONSE IN RECIPROCATINGSLIDING AT MILLI-NEWTON LOADS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 2.1. Deposition of the Film -- 2.2. Characterisation of the Film -- 2.3. AFM Measurement -- 2.4. Friction Measurement -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 3.1. Morphology -- 3.2. Raman Spectroscopy -- 3.3. Friction Behaviour -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- WEAR PERFORMANCE OF COLD SPRAYED NI-20CRCOATINGS ON T-22 AND SA-516 BOILER STEELS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE -- 3. RESULTS -- 3.1. Characterstics of as Sprayed Ni-20Cr Coatings -- 3.1.1. Thickness -- 3.1.2. XRD Analysis -- 3.1.3. SEM Analysis -- 3.2. Wear Behaviour -- 3.2.1. T-22 Steel at Normal Load of 30 N -- 3.2.2. T-22 Steel at Normal Load of 50 N -- 3.2.3. SA516 Steel at Normal Load of 30 N -- 3.2.4. SA516 Steel at Normal Load of 50 N -- 3.3. SEM Analysis of Worn out Surfaces -- 4. DDISCUSSIONN -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- PREDICTION OF EROSION WEAR RATEOF CEMENT BYPASS DUST FILLED HYBRIDCOMPOSITES USING NEURAL NETWORKAND FUZZY LOGIC -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION.

2. EXPERIMENTAL DETAILS -- 2.1. Materials -- 2.2. Mechanical Properties -- 3. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN -- 4. FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEM -- 4.1. Development of Mamdani Fuzzy Model -- 4.1.1. Selection of Input and Output Variables -- 4.1.2. Selection of Membership Functions for Input and Output Variables -- 4.1.3. Formation of Linguistic Rule-base -- 4.1.4. Defuzzification -- 5. NEURAL COMPUTATION -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- STUDIES ON THE INFLUENCE OF POSITIVEROUGHNESS ON THE PERFORMANCEOF JOURNAL BEARING -- ABSTRACT -- NOMENCLATURE -- Greek Symbols -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. NUMERCAL MODEL -- 2.1. Governing Equation -- 2.2. Boundary Conditions -- 2.3. Bearing Parameters and Performance Parameters -- 2.4. Texture Geometry -- 2.5. Computational Procedure -- 2.6. Validation of the Model -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 3.1. Configuration II -- 3.2. Asperity Amplitude Effect on Eccentricity Ratio -- 3.3. Surface Texture Effect on Attitude Angle -- 3.4. Influence of Number of Asperities -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ATTRIBUTE BASED DESIGN SPECIFICATION,COMPARISON AND SELECTION OF ELECTROPLATINGWASTE TREATMENT SYSTEMUSING MADM APPROACH -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ELECTROPLATING WASTE TREATMENT -CHARACTERISTICS AND ATTRIBUTES -- 2.1. Electroplating Waste Treatment Design Attributes -- 2.2. Electroplating Waste Treatment Performance Characteristics Attributes -- 2.3. Electroplating Waste Treatment Application Characteristics Attributes -- 2.4. Electroplating Waste Treatment Handling Characteristics Attributes -- 2.5. Electroplating Waste Treatment Recycleability CharacteristicsAttributes -- 3. CODING SCHEME -- 3.1. ILLUSTRATION OF CODING -- 4. THREE STAGE SELECTION PROCEDURE -- 4.1. Phase 1: Elimination Search -- 4.2. Phase 2: Evaluation Using TOPSIS Method -- 4.3. Graphical Method -- 4.3.1. Line Graph Representation.

4.3.2. Spider Diagram -- 4.4. Identification and Graphical Representation of the BenchmarkElectroplating Waste Treatment -- 4.5. Coefficient of Similarity (COS) -- 4.6. Usefulness to the Manufacturer/User/Designer -- 5. ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE -- 5.1. TOPSIS Method for Ranking -- 5.2. Graphical Method Based Ranking -- 5.3. Stage 3- Role of User/ Top Management in Selection -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CAD/CAM-BASED STICK-SLIP MOTION CONTROLAND ITS APPLICATION TO AN ORTHOGONALTYPEROBOT -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. DESKTOP ORTHOGONAL-TYPE ROBOT -- 3. COMPLIANT MOTION OF BALL-END ABRASIVE TOOL -- 3.1. CAD/CAM-Based Position/Force Control with Weak CouplingTechnique -- 3.2. Tuning of Desired Damping -- 3.3. Experiment -- 4. STICK-SLIP MOTION OF BALL-END ABRASIVE TOOL -- 4.1. CAD/CAM-Based Stick-Slip Motion Control -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CATALYST SYSTEMS FOR EXHAUSTED GASESNEUTRALIZATION OF INTERNALCOMBUSTIONENGINE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. RESEARCH OF METAL SUBSTRATE FORMULTILAYER CATALYSTS COMPOSITIONS -- 2.1. Research of Surface Morphology of Base Titanium Layer -- 2.2. Selection of the Optimum Method of Increase of Metal Surface Area -- 2.3. Analysis of Impurity Influencing on Mechanical Properties of the MetalCarrier -- 3. OXIDE LAYER FORMATION ON THE SURFACE OF VALVE METALS -- 3.1. Selection of the Metal Oxidation Method -- 3.2. Research of Structure and Phase Composition of the Oxide LayerDepending on the Oxidation Method -- 3.3. Research of Degradation Processes in Metal-Oxide Bilayer duringHeat Treatment -- 3.4. Research of Morphology and Mechanical Properties of Oxide Layer -- 4. RESEARCH OF CATALYTIC ACTIVE LAYER STRUCTURE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.