Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, 8th in SI Units by Pearson
by Serope Kalpakjian, Steven R. Schmid
PART VII
Surface Technology
Our first visual or tactile contact with the objects around us is through their surfaces: surface roughness, waviness, reflectivity, and various other features. The preceding chapters described the properties of materials and manufactured components, basically in terms of their bulk characteristics, such as strength, ductility, hardness, and toughness. Also included were some descriptions of the influences of surfaces on these properties, such as the effect of surface preparation on fatigue life and on joining processes, and the sensitivity of brittle materials to surface roughness, scratches, and various defects.
Machinery and their various accessories typically have numerous members that slide against each other: ...
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