Course Title:
Mechanics of Contact and Lubrication
Course Description:
Covers issues related to friction, wear, and lubrication of contacting surfaces. Topics include brief review of elasticity, fluid mechanics and probability theory, characterization of engineering surfaces, standard surface topography descriptors, Gaussian and fractal characterization of surface topography, surface profilers, contact mechanics, Hertzian contact, contact of rough surfaces, real area of contact, empirical contact formulas, rolling contact, friction of solids, wear mechanisms, theory of lubrication, compressible and incompressible Reynolds equation, effects of slip flow, classification of bearing types, elastohydrodynamic lubrication, foil bearings, and boundary lubrication.
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Cross-Listed Course 1:
MIM U656
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Prerequisite 5:
Cross-Listed Course 4:
Prerequisite Remarks:
Admission to Graduate School of Engineering.
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Repeatable:
N
