Frictions Books

As a beginner, this is a good book for me. It tells me where to look for further reading. The sentences are simple and straightforward. The concepts are explained in clearly. Although it is far from a bible, I would like to recommend it if you are new in this field. The only thing that I do not like is the graphics. Unless I got to the appendix, I felt it was difficult to understand some graphics.

Great reading. Has a good way of teaching the dumbies in us. I will benefit from this book in my work

Very good as entry-level textbook! Not for the die hard spectrum annalist though... It should be considered essential for crash courses in vibrations and spectrum analysis.

I borrow this book from Uni, of Washington and found out that this book is lack of both practical and theoritical inf. The writing of the book is so poor and minimum examples of real data that I stopped short of completing the book. Worst for your money.

This is an excellent book for people faced with practical vibration problems. The book is a well-written to this topic. Focus is on rotating machinery, and data acquistion, filtering, etc. This is the best 1st book on vibration diagnosing I've found yet. A definite recommend to buy

The Magic School Bus is an excellent science-based book collection, in which the indomitable Ms. Frizzle (wonderfully voiced by Lily Tomlin on the animated TV show) takes her grammar school kids on "Fantastic Voyage" like journeys in a shrinking school bus. . The bus takes the kids inside a book about Physics, where they enter a page about a baseball field with no friction. The kids learn about how throwing, running, and catching would work were there no friction.

Generally, the books are funny, have recognizable characters, and teach science principles in a clear, imaginative way. This book, however, was not as good as others I've read in the series: there is minimal use of "miniaturization" that makes the other books so clever and unique, the focus on friction is a bit too narrow, and the usually exciting escape from danger is on the tepid side. Still, its 30 pages contain bad puns, demonstrations of friction, and two friction experiments and the never-frazzled Ms. Frizzle. It's a mildly entertaining and informative book.

I'm 8 years old, and I've read alot of Magic School Busbooks. This book explains all about friction, forces, pushing andpulling.The book takes place in a magic book where the kids play baseball with no friction. I liked this book because I play baseball, and it would be hard to play without friction. I think that this book is better than the one about bats, and I REALLY liked that one. This book was one of the best I've read, so I suggest this book for your children.Kids, ask your parents to buy this book.

I actually found this book to be well written and put together. After reading stories like "Nasty", "Thug Life, Thug Fiction", and "Fantasies", the reader will be very turn on. Although I am a female, I found these stories very arousing. Unlike other best of series (of any kind) this one actually has stories that even the common [person] will understand, and find entertaining. I know some people might find certain kind of erotica disgusting, that is not the case with this book or any of the other "FRICTION" series. I highly recommend this book to both male and female.

This is a nice, brief, inexpensive introduction to the subject, and perhaps excellent for its time (1997). However, there's almost nothing here that's not in a much better, more recent compilation (2005, CRC) on the same subject, edited by LR Rudnick. This later work by CRC, Taylor & Francis, is absolutely the best and most complete that has appeared on the subject of syntheitic lubricants.

This text is a well-balanced treatment of the very complex topic of tribology. It is very difficult to cover the subject as so many disciplines are involved and so much expertise is required. Dr. Ludema has done an excellent job of pulling the many views of friction and wear together in one non-threatening book.

Although the text is a bit light on chemistry, the author definitely conveys the importance of the science to tribology.

The section on friction and wear testing should be required reading for all new tribologists and lubrication engineers.

For six days in November of 1992, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers rocked our world. For it was during this time that the Engineers unleashed on an unsuspecting public their most noteworthy publication: Friction-induced vibration, chatter, squeal, and chaos. The world will never be the same.

Every man I know has spent their mature life attempting to perfect techniques of friction-induced vibration, chatter, squeal, and chaos - particularly the squeal part, but maybe less so the chatter. Leave it to the Engineers - those incredibly, ingeneous Engineers - to distill the subject into a manual of only 183 pages.

Unfortunately, this particular title is in paperback, so I suspect it has no accompanying pictures; though I will probably never know, since the book is currently unavailable. The probable lack of pictures is quite disappointing to me; therefore, I can't give it the full five stars that my wife thinks it might deserve.

She has started a letter-writing campaign to the publisher, ASME, hoping that a re-print will be available in the near future. She apparently feels that I lack the necessary skills of inducing - through friction or otherwise - adequate vibrations, squeals, or chaos.

the book is a very good review of metal working fluids basics and if you are new to the industry or planning to teach about the industry and or the relations ship of the MWFs to the manufacturing process it is a good investment -- however a new addition is currently being written and a lot of the "nuts and bolts" covered will be different and better

Operation Friction gives one of only two histories of Canada's contribution to the Gulf War that I have seen (the other being The Persian Excursion). Gimblett's book is obviously the work of a professional historian, lacking the flash of the journalist, but solid, reliable and easily read. Although Gimblett does recount the story of the two fighter squadrons based in Bahrain and Qatar during the conflict, and the ground troops on garrison duty, it becomes fairly clear that Canada's major contribution to the Gulf war was in the Gulf itself -- the three ships (One destroyer, one frigate and one supply vessel)that hurriedly sailed from port after Canada threw its hat in the game. Canada's contribution mirrored its efforts in the Second World War -- an escort navy. In the lower and Central Gulf, the destroyer Athabasca and the very old frigate Terra Nova sheparded Coalition supply vessels safely to Saudi harbours, while stopping and boarding dozens of suspect ships heading to Iraqi harbour terminals. The Protecteur, the supply ship, was kept at sea for great lengths as she was always in need by the other Coalition ships. Eventually Canadian ships took over the leadership of convoy duties in the central Gulf, while Athabasca braved the minefields that had badly damaged the USS Princeton to escort the American missile cruiser south to safety. Canada only played a limited offensive role in the war (using it's CF-18 fighter-bombers in the last couple of days), but its forces were there throughout Desert Storm and Desert Shield. She played a valuable, if not spectacular role in the Kuwait crisis and Gimblett has done a very creditable job.

It is perhaps a little surprising that this book was ever written. Bhushan deals with the nitty gritty practicalities of making a disk drive, circa 1996. You might reasonably expect that most of the book's details have deliberately been kept proprietary by the disk manufacturers.

But by whatever means, the book was published. You get a wealth of details that might take an R&D group years to learn on their own. Keep in mind that the emphasis here is on the mechanics. So don't expect a discussion of IBM's usage of the Giant Magnetoresistive effect, for example.

The book should make you appreciate the incredible mechanical constraints under which disks operate. They can spin for years, with the heads not crashing into them, but separated by mere microns. Truly amazing manufacture.

The book provides a readable, concise overview of the development of wear and friction theories and research. It has helped me to gain a basic understanding of tribology. The book also provides a good foundation for developing application-specific analytical models and testing methods that are useful for optimizing material wear pairs.