The objective and intended audience for this book are clearly stated in the Preface: "This book is intended to explain the wear analysis method and its implementation and to provide sufficient information for the performance of most wear analyses. It is intended primarily for engineers." Perhaps, the phrase "author's wear analysis method," should probably be substituted in place of "the wear analysis method," which implies that there is only one. In fact, there are several handbook and tribology texts on the market today that describe some form of wear analysis. While the author's approach shares many key attributes with the others, it represents a unique perspective gained after 40 years of experience in the field of tribology. The approach he provides is sufficiently general to cover a wide range of wear problems. The book is organized into eight chapters and five appendices that contain a number of data tables and equations. There is also a consolidated reference list and a glossary of terms to describe wear mechanisms. Chapter 1 overviews the author's wear analysis process. It involves examination, characterization, modeling and evaluation, and testing. Each of these four steps and the process of implementing them are described in general terms.
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