Failures of many mechanical components in service result from fatigue. The cracks which grow may either originate from some pre-existing macroscopic defect, or,

This book, which has only one very distant forerunner authored by David A. Hills with David Nowell, represents a very big step that is the quantification of the

Fretting Wear and Fretting Fatigue: Fundamental Principles and Applications takes a combined mechanics and materials approach, providing readers with a fundamen

Contains 29 contributions drawn from the Third International Symposium on Fretting Fatigue held in Nagaoka, Japan in May 2001. Sections of the volume address fr

This volume includes 36 of the 40 papers presented at the symposium, and a collection of six keynote papers providing background on the subject. Topics covered