Fundamentals of Friction

I. Scientific And Engineering Perspectives.- Friction as a Dissipative Process.- Friction Fluctuations.- II. Contact Mechanics, Surfaces and Adhesion.- Contact of Rough Surfaces.- Problems with Surface Roughness.- Surface Forces and Adhesion.- Particle-Particle Interaction in Granular Material.- Models of Friction Based on Contact and Fracture Mechanics.- III. Fracture, Deformation and Interface Shear.- Friction Processes in Brittle Fracture.- Friction of Organic Polymers.- Friction of Granular Non-Metals.- Deformation and Flow of Metals in Sliding Friction.- Mapping of Friction: An Extended Discussion.- IV. Lubrication by Solids and Tribochemical Films.- Solid Lubrication Processes.- Friction with Colloidal Lubrication.- Effect of Surface Reactivity on Tribological Properties of a Boundary Lubricant.- Chemical Effects in Friction.- Surface Science and Extreme Pressure Lubrication - CC14 Chemistry On Fe(110).- V. Lubrication by Liquids and Molecularly-Thin Layers.- Friction and Traction in Lubricated Contacts.- Adhesion, Friction and Lubrication of Molecularly Smooth Surfaces.- Molecular Tribology of Fluids.- VI. New Approaches at the Nano- and Atomic Scale.- Friction at the Atomic Scale.- Friction Force Microscopy of Langmuir-Blodgett Films.- Computational Techniques in Tribology and Material Science at the Atomic Level.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Adhesive Contact Formation and Friction.- The Indentation and Scraping of a Metal Surface: A Molecular Dynamics Study.- VII. Machines and Measurements.- Scale Effects in Sliding Friction: An Experimental Study.- Unsteady Friction in the Presence of Vibrations.- Interaction and Stability of Friction and Vibrations.- VIII. Appendix.- Epilogue.- to Contact Mechanics: A Summary of the Principal Formulae.- List of Participants.