| Preface | p. v |
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| References | p. 4 |
| Material Properties | p. 7 |
| Introduction | p. 7 |
| The Lubricant | p. 7 |
| Viscosity | p. 7 |
| Kinematic Viscosity (v) | p. 9 |
| Effect of Temperature | p. 9 |
| Viscosity Index | p. 10 |
| Effect of Pressure on Viscosity | p. 11 |
| Density | p. 15 |
| Refractive Index | p. 16 |
| Thermal Conductivity | p. 16 |
| Non-Newtonian Behaviour | p. 17 |
| Lubricant Solidification at High Pressures | p. 19 |
| The Bounding Surfaces | p. 19 |
| The Elastic Behaviour Within the Bodies | p. 26 |
| Closure | p. 26 |
| Elastostatic Contacts | p. 29 |
| Introduction | p. 29 |
| Non-Conforming Contact Elastostatics | p. 30 |
| Hertzian Contact Theory | p. 30 |
| Assumptions | p. 30 |
| Geometry Equation | p. 31 |
| Elastic Displacement | p. 32 |
| Axisymmetric Pressure Distribution | p. 33 |
| Contact Between Spherical Surfaces | p. 37 |
| Line Contact | p. 38 |
| Line Contact Between Cylindrical Surfaces | p. 42 |
| General Case of Touching Point Contact | p. 44 |
| Footprints Having Only One Axis of Symmetry | p. 50 |
| Contact Between Regular Wavy Surfaces | p. 50 |
| Closure | p. 53 |
| The Governing Equations of Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication | p. 57 |
| Introduction | p. 57 |
| The Reynolds Equation | p. 57 |
| Assumptions made in the Derivation of the Reynolds Equation | p. 58 |
| Equilibrium of Forces on a Lubricant Element | p. 59 |
| Velocity Distribution | p. 60 |
| Mass Continuity | p. 61 |
| Special Forms of the Reynolds Equation | p. 64 |
| The Reynolds Equation in Polar Coordinates | p. 67 |
| The Energy Equation | p. 69 |
| The Lubricant Film Geometry Equation | p. 72 |
| The Elastic Deflection Equation | p. 73 |
| The Lubricant Equations of State | p. 75 |
| The Load Equation | p. 75 |
| The Governing Dimensionless Groups | p. 75 |
| Simple Concepts of Non-Conforming Contact Lubrication | p. 83 |
| Introduction | p. 83 |
| Lubrication of Rigid Line Contacts | p. 83 |
| Pressure Distribution | p. 83 |
| Load | p. 88 |
| Inlet Boundary Conditions | p. 89 |
| Outlet Boundary Conditions | p. 94 |
| Rigid Piezoviscous Line Contacts | p. 96 |
| Lubrication of Rigid Point Contacts | p. 98 |
| Pressure Distribution | p. 99 |
| Load | p. 101 |
| Rigid Piezoviscous Point Contacts | p. 102 |
| Load at which Surface Deformation becomes Important | p. 103 |
| Experimental Evidence | p. 104 |
| An Approximate Theory of Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication | p. 107 |
| Introduction | p. 107 |
| Grubin's Solution for Ehd Line Contacts | p. 108 |
| The Load-Bearing and Exit Zone in Ehd Line Contacts | p. 112 |
| Point Contact Approximate Solutions | p. 117 |
| An Approximate Theory for Rough Surfaces Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication | p. 121 |
| Introduction | p. 121 |
| Steady State Analysis | p. 121 |
| Transient Analysis | p. 126 |
| Closure | p. 131 |
| Numerical Methods for Determining Oil Film Thickness and Pressure Distribution in Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication | p. 139 |
| Introduction | p. 139 |
| Assumptions | p. 139 |
| Governing Equations Used for the Numerical Solutions | p. 140 |
| Elastic Deflection | p. 140 |
| Film Shape | p. 147 |
| Equations of State of the Lubricant | p. 149 |
| Reynolds Equation | p. 149 |
| Load | p. 153 |
| Solution Methods | p. 154 |
| Introduction | p. 154 |
| The Forward Iterative Method | p. 155 |
| Inverse Solution Method | p. 158 |
| Other Solution Methods | p. 162 |
| Closure | p. 164 |
| Film Thickness and Pressure Distribution in Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication | p. 169 |
| Introduction | p. 169 |
| Results for the Lubricant Film Thickness in Ehd Line Contacts | p. 169 |
| Film Geometry (Infinite Line Contacts) | p. 169 |
| Film Geometry (Finite Line Contacts) | p. 171 |
| Ehd Line Contact Film Thickness Formulae | p. 174 |
| Comparison of Theoretical Predictions with Experimental Results | p. 178 |
| Results for the Lubricant Film Thickness in Ehd Point Contacts | p. 181 |
| Film Geometry | p. 181 |
| Ehd Point Contact Film Thickness Formulae | p. 186 |
| Comparison of Experimental Results with Theoretical Predictions | p. 190 |
| Regimes of Lubrication in Point and Line Contacts | p. 194 |
| Point Contacts | p. 194 |
| Line Contacts | p. 197 |
| Lubricant Thermal and Starvation Effects in Ehl | p. 198 |
| Thermal Effects (Flooded Contacts) | p. 198 |
| Starvation Effects (Isothermal) | p. 203 |
| Combined Thermal and Starvation Effects | p. 207 |
| Ehl of Rough Surfaces | p. 208 |
| Partial Ehl | p. 208 |
| Early Research on Micro Ehl | p. 216 |
| Closure | p. 218 |
| Friction and Non-Linear Lubricant Behaviour in Elastohydrodynamic Contacts | p. 225 |
| Introduction | p. 225 |
| Newtonian Treatment of Friction | p. 226 |
| Rigid-Isoviscous Conditions | p. 226 |
| Rolling Friction in Ehd Isothermal Contact | p. 230 |
| Friction in Ehd Sliding Contacts | p. 235 |
| Effect of Temperature | p. 236 |
| A Rheological Model for the Lubricant | p. 242 |
| Introduction | p. 242 |
| Viscoelastic Model | p. 242 |
| The Limiting Shear Stress | p. 246 |
| Disk Machine Experiments | p. 247 |
| Application to Practical Ehd Contacts | p. 254 |
| Thermal Effects | p. 254 |
| Regimes of Friction Maps | p. 258 |
| The Reynolds-Eyring Equation | p. 259 |
| Closure | p. 266 |
| Stress and Fatigue in Elastohydrodynamic Contacts | p. 273 |
| Introduction | p. 273 |
| Stresses Under Ehd Contacts | p. 276 |
| Orthogonal Stresses | p. 276 |
| Failure Stress Hypotheses | p. 278 |
| Life Prediction | p. 284 |
| Lundberg and Palmgren's Model | p. 284 |
| Effect of Ehl on Fatigue Life | p. 290 |
| Unified Life Models | p. 297 |
| Life of Gears | p. 303 |
| Closure | p. 305 |
| Appendix | p. 305 |
| Computation of Orthogonal Shear Stresses | p. 305 |
| Experimental Methods in Elastohydrodynamics | p. 313 |
| Introduction | p. 313 |
| Measurement of Friction Force | p. 314 |
| Vacuum-Deposited Transducers | p. 318 |
| Measurement of Pressure Distribution | p. 318 |
| Temperature Measurement | p. 320 |
| Measurement of Film Thickness | p. 320 |
| Methods of Deposition | p. 322 |
| Direct Laser Milling of the Transducer | p. 322 |
| Calibration | p. 323 |
| The Electric Circuit | p. 323 |
| Measurement of the Ehd Film by Interferometry | p. 324 |
| Introduction | p. 324 |
| Two-Beam Interferometry | p. 325 |
| Multiple-Beam Interferometry | p. 327 |
| Measuring the Film Thickness | p. 328 |
| Further Interferometry Applications | p. 330 |
| Ultra-Thin Films | p. 332 |
| Ultra-Thin Ehl Films Between Rough Surfaces | p. 335 |
| Thermography | p. 337 |
| Methods of Detecting the Presence of Ehd Films | p. 338 |
| Electrical Resistance | p. 338 |
| 'Before and after' inspection | p. 339 |
| Closure | p. 339 |
| Some Advanced Numerical Methods for Determining the Oil Film Thickness in Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication | p. 341 |
| Multigrid (Multi-Level) and Multi-Level Multi-Integration Methods | p. 341 |
| Introduction | p. 341 |
| The Multigrid Method | p. 343 |
| The Multigrid Algorithm | p. 344 |
| The Non-Linear Full Approximation Scheme | p. 346 |
| Intergrid Operators | p. 347 |
| Cycling Strategies | p. 349 |
| Application of Multigrid Methods to Time-Dependent Problems | p. 351 |
| The Multi-Level Multi-Integration Method (MLMI) | p. 352 |
| Numerical Methods to Solve Ehl Problems | p. 355 |
| The Governing Equations | p. 355 |
| Discretization of the Governing Equations | p. 356 |
| Relaxation Schemes | p. 358 |
| The Effective Influence Newton Method (EIN) | p. 363 |
| Time-Dependent Problems | p. 364 |
| Application of Multigrid and Multi-Level Multi-Integration to Ehl Problems | p. 365 |
| Results | p. 366 |
| Introduction | p. 366 |
| A Single Depression on a Moving Surface | p. 366 |
| Wavy Features on a Moving Surface | p. 370 |
| Roughness Features on a Stationary Surface | p. 373 |
| Ehl Transient Problems for Smooth Surfaces | p. 376 |
| Closure | p. 383 |
| Various Topics Related to Elastohydrodynamics | p. 389 |
| Introduction | p. 389 |
| Application of Ehl to Gear Tooth Contacts | p. 389 |
| Introduction | p. 389 |
| Geometry | p. 392 |
| Kinematics | p. 393 |
| Load | p. 394 |
| Example | p. 395 |
| Roller Bearings with Spherical-Ended Elements | p. 401 |
| Accommodation of Axial Loads | p. 401 |
| Estimation of Minimum Film Thickness | p. 404 |
| Applications | p. 409 |
| Rebounding Lubricant Layers | p. 410 |
| Variable Speed Transmissions | p. 418 |
| Ehd Films as Vibration Dampers | p. 420 |
| Vibrations of Rolling Element Bearings | p. 420 |
| Governing Equations | p. 421 |
| Vibration Response | p. 425 |
| Ehd Lubrication of Impacting Non-Conforming Surfaces | p. 427 |
| Closure | p. 434 |
| Appendix | p. 434 |
| Navier-Stokes Equations | p. 434 |
| Future Trends in Ehl | p. 439 |
| Rough Surface and Partial Ehl | p. 439 |
| Gear Lubrication | p. 439 |
| Ehl Treated as Part of a System | p. 440 |
| The Effect of Wear Debris on the Fatigue Life of Rolling Bearings | p. 440 |
| Transient Ehl | p. 440 |
| Experimental Techniques | p. 441 |
| Abnormal Phenomena | p. 441 |
| Closure | p. 441 |
| Index | p. 443 |
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