Websites about Fretting and

Tribology
There are a number of websites and blogs related to tribology and fretting. Unfortunately,
many of them are not updated frequently; however, you will still find some of them
interesting. Please make a quick stop at some or all of these sites. If you have a website or
blog with useful information about fretting or tribology, leave a comments below and I will
add it to this post.

American Machinist
A magazine for machinists with calculators, articles, and other resources.

Applied Mechanics of Solids

SolidMechanics.org is an online mechanics textbook by A.F. Bower. It is
best viewed using internet explorer.

Data 4 Design
Peter Hurricks website where he provides a wide range of information
about many engineering topics including fretting.

Dassault 3DS
This website is a learning community for Dassaults software such as
Abaqus. Registration is free.

eBearing
This is a resource site for the bearing industry. It has news articles, job
postings, resources and much more.

Fretting Fatigue
This website has good information about fretting fatigue modeling and
testing.

Gear Box Failure

This website proves information for people working with geared
machinery who want to prevent failure from occurring.
 iMechanica
A site where engineers and scientists post information and make
comments about mechanics.

Machinery Lubrication Magazine

An engineering magazine devoted to dealing with practical engineering
problems related to lubrication. The site has many good articles.

Modern Machine Shop Online

This online magazine has many articles about machining and machining
equipment.

Process and Control Today

This online magazine is one of the most comprehensive information
source for the Process, Control, Automation and Manufacturing
industries.

Schaefflers Bearing Mounting Website

Learn about mounting bearings from Schaeffler. There is information
about their products and more.

Society of Tribology and Lubrication Engineers

The STLE is the premier tribology association and has its own blog. The
blog is updated regularly with interviews and webinars.

Tribology Blog
This blog is run by Vishal Khosla who is an engineer at CETR.
Unfortunately, it is not updated frequently. The typical topics include
projects he is working on and general tribology.

Tribology Is Cool
Agin is/was a graduate student studying tribology at a university in
London. Her blog is now dead.

Tribology News
I post articles about the field of tribology to this blog. Please submit any
articles which I do not list.
 Tribology WordPress Blog
Anirudh started this blog to explain the basics of tribology. It is currently
dead.

Wind Power Engineering

This magazine publishes articles on a regular basis related to wind
turbines.

Books about Fretting

There have been a large number of academic articles and books written about
the topic of fretting. I have compiled a number of books about fretting or related
to fretting on this page. Unfortunately, some of these books are currently very
difficult to find.

Engineering Tribology by G.W. Stachowiak and A.W. Batchelor

Fretting Corrosion by R.B. Waterhouse

Fretting Fatigue by R.B. Waterhouse and T.L. Lindley

 Fretting Fatigue: Advances in Basic Understanding and Applications by
Y. Mutoh, S.E. Kinyon, and D.W. Hoeppner

Fretting Fatigue: Current Technology and Practices by D.W. Hoeppner,

V. Chandrasekaran, and C.B. Elliott

Materials Evaluation Under Fretting Conditions STP 780 by S.R.

Brown

Mechanics of Fretting Fatigue by D.A. Hills and D. Nowell

The Mechanism of Fretting Wear by I.F. Stowers

Standardization of Fretting Fatigue Test Methods and Equipment by

M.H. Attia

Wear: Materials, Mechanisms, and Practice by G.W. Stachowiak

 Archard wear law
The Archard wear equation was developed by Archard based upon an earlier theory developed
by Holm. It is also referred to as the Archard-Holm and Holm-Archard law. Holm published his
model based upon his theory of atoms being removed from the surface of a material in 1946.
Archard improved upon the theory by using asperities (clusters of atoms) instead of individual
atoms as the basis for his model in 1953.

The Archard wear law or some equivalent of it is used in most fretting models and to fit most
experimental data. Although wear experts will tell you that the law does not apply in many
cases, it is commonly used because it works fairly well a lot of the time and there is no perfect
wear law.

The most common form of the equation is shown below. Here W is the wear volume lost, K is the
wear coefficient, H is the hardness, F is the normal force, and S is the sliding distance.

The equation can also be reworked to measure wear depth or wear rate. The next equation
shows the equation for wear depth which comes from dividing each side of the equation by area.
Here P is the pressure and is the wear depth.

To calculate the wear rate the derivative with respect to time is taken. This can be simplified in
most cases by assuming that the normal load is constant with respect to time. Here a dot above
a term means a time derivative has been taken so is the velocity.