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Tribosystem Analysis: A Practical Approach to the Diagnosis of Wear Problems Peter J. Blau Published by CRC Press, May 2016,192 pages List Price: $129.95 (USD)
DR. PETER BLAU HAS DONE IT AGAIN WITH ANOTHER IMPORTANT BOOK for those of us who work in the broad world of tribology, lubrication engineering and lubrication maintenance. His new book, Tribosystem Analysis: A Practical Approach to the Diagnosis of Wear Problems, is a short methodical description of the process for properly diagnosing wear problems, just as the title implies. It is appropriate for literally everyone in our field from senior undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and practitioners from the lubricant producers through to end-users responsible for plant operations. With this well-written book Peter takes the sometimes seemly, hopelessly complex world of wear and sorts it into a very logical pattern that can-at least conceptually-be readily understood by almost anyone.
There is a huge gap between the researchers/academicians working on the nanoscale and engineers working in the real world, just as there is a problem bridging the nano/macro scale gap. Nano-scale testing and modeling has not been translated effectively to the macro scale. Tribologists tend to study...